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 ...

He was hardly the only famous poet of his blazing, far-flung generation. But he was the one most dogged by disputes over the nature and authenticity of his talent. Even among admirers, there was ample ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a 1960 review of books of poetry by Philip Larkin and Geoffrey Hill, W.H. Auden remarked: “To write about a poet for others who have not yet read him is not criticism but reviewing, and reviewing ...

I teach two writing courses at Mt. Holyoke College, normally an orderly drill in which I try to supply useful I teach two writing courses at Mt. Holyoke College, normally an orderly drill in which I ...

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 ...

It is easy to despair these days of the word Christian. The Christians I know are alarmed at the public abuse of the word. In the media cosmos, “Christian” has come to mean a narrow, conspicuous ...