American summer music festivals are usually too busy competing for audiences to ever consider doing something jointly, much less doing something worthwhile on behalf of living American composers. So ...

THE odd impersonality of W. H. Auden always gives his poetry, even when he shows the deepest insight into the human heart, an air of strangeness. It was this too which made him seem strange to his ...

Edward Mendelson, W.H. Auden's literary executor, discusses the poem "Funeral Blues," which was used in the 1994 film Four Weddings and a Funeral and also was set to music by composer Benjamin Britten ...

A collection of previously unknown poems, thought to be early examples of the work of W H Auden, have been unearthed in a school magazine. The poems, which will form part of centenary celebrations for ...

WH Auden (1907–1973) was a British-American poet whose first collection of poetry Poems was published by TS Eliot, the master himself, for Faber and Faber in 1930. Ten years later, Auden published his ...

How China caught the science fiction bug: “One afternoon in June 1999, more than three million Chinese schoolchildren took their seats for the Gaokao, the country’s national college entrance exam.

"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Poems, Volume I: 1927-1939," edited by Edward Mendelson. Princeton University Press. 848 pp. $60 "The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Poems, Volume II: 1940-1973," ...

A collection of previously unknown poems thought to be the work of WH Auden, have been found in Norfolk. The poems were found by John Smart, a former head of arts at Gresham's School in Holt, as he ...

Musée des Beaux Arts by W.H. Auden About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters: how well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a ...

In 1930, a 23-year-old poet published his first book Poems, which catapulted him to fame. However, it was the long poem The Age of Anxiety, written in 1947, that earned Wystan Hugh Auden the Pulitzer ...

For Nicholas Jenkins, WH Auden’s piercingly brilliant early poems emerge in the devastated wake of the first World War. Although it is absent as a named subject, war is presented as the crucial ...

On the bitterly chilly night of Monday, March 5, the wood-paneled Art Deco auditorium of the 92nd Street Y was a warm place to be. For a centenary tribute to W.H. Auden (1907-73), the room was filled ...