The great poet chronicled the turmoil of the Spanish Civil War and the rise of Fascism but he later renounced his most radical and ardent political work.

These poems were collected in 2001 under the title The English Auden, edited by Edward Mendelson, who preserved the originals of many poems that Auden later altered or suppressed.

W. H. Auden is a 20th-century poet, born in England before immigrating to the United States in the 1930s “It’s some of the most beautiful poetry you will ever read,” Warren said of Auden’s ...

But there is also a practical limit to the labours he inspires. A few years ago, Ian Sansom published a witty confession of failure in the form of an aphoristic “biography” of one of Auden’s most ...

Although Auden remains a very English poet, he and intermittent lover Isherwood left for New York together in 1939, just before the outbreak of war, and lived most of their lives in America.