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 ...

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.

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 ...

The family of the poet Henry Livingston, Jr., claimed their father had been reciting “A Visit From St. Nicholas” to them for 15 years before it was published. Here's the view from both sides ...

Key Background. Poetry’s explosion on TikTok is just the latest literary trend to hit social media. Poetry has long been popular on Instagram, where writers like Rupi Kaur helped make short ...

Some of the greatest English poets of the 20th Century were ruled out by Downing Street as candidates for poet laureate, government files reveal. Names such as WH Auden, Philip Larkin and Robert ...

The poems, from the 1920s, will form part of celebrations marking Auden's 100th birthday at the school next week. Mr Smart, from Thornage, near Holt, chanced across the poems in the school library ...

An obscene poem in an underground magazine and why WH Auden missed out as Poet Laureate despite many believing he was the most important wordsmith of his age ...