They were the most brilliant bunch of boys English literature has ever seen, those writers who came to fame in the ’30s. And as this volume of the poems he wrote at school and university brings home, ...

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 ...

It's one of those poems people reach for in times when it feels like the sky is falling. It's also generally regarded as one of the great poems of the 20th century. "September 1, 1939," as its title ...

"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," ...

WH Auden (left), the subject of the latest book by Alexander McCall Smith (right) Credit: Photo: Jerry Cooke/CORBIS; Chris Watt WH Auden was an astonishingly versatile poet. He wrote about rocks, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...