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20th-century Poetry in English: W. H. Auden Eiichi Hishikawa's excellent page provides a biography, a bibliography, links, and a photograph of Auden. Pages on a few important Modernist poets and writers are nearby, for comparison. | |
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W. H. Auden: "There Will Be No Peace" From a site in Poland, here is a poem not found elsewhere, "There Will Be No Peace." | |
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W. H. Auden: Quotations Here are a few quotations by the author on the life of the poet. | |
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"Fleet Visit" Here is a page containing the poem "Fleet Visit," not found elsewhere on the Web. | |
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W. H. Auden's Poetry This page from the University of Dundee contains Auden's poems "Three Short Poems" and "In Praise Of Limestone (May 1948)." | |
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Quotations from W. H. Auden This page lists quotations by the author on various subjects, from "actors" to "writing." The quotations are indexed thematically. | |
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Cherry Grove Here is a page for Cherry Grove on Fire Island, in New York, one of the first openly gay communities in the United States, where Auden used to vacation. It contains period pictures, and an interesting biographical detail about the poet. Auden's summer house at Cherry Grove has been replaced by a bar. | |
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"Alcaics In Exile: W. H. Auden's 'In Memory Of Sigmund Freud'" Among many other reasons, W. H. Auden was an important poet for the ways in which he sought to revitalize the art of versification after the Modernist revolution in poetic form. This extremely informative essay, by Rosanna Warren, looks for an explanation of Auden's choice of line and stanza in the poem "In Memory Of Sigmund Freud." | |
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The W. H. Auden Society This site claims that it will become "at some point in the future" the homepage of the Auden Society. As it is now, however, it is quite a good site, offering a bibliography of new and forthcoming books of interest, online versions of the society's newsletter, information on membership and on the society, and more. The newsletter archive itself contains much information on upcoming events, publications and recordings, essays on the poet and, when available, newly discovered works. | |
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The Richmond Review, Book Review This is a review of the first biography of Auden to appear in fourteen years, Auden, by Richard Davenport-Hines. The review appears in The Richmond Review online. | |
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Creative Quotations from W. H. Auden (1907-1973) Here are some more quotations on life and art from the author. | |
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W.H.Auden: "Control of the Passes" This personal page contains the poem "Control of the Passes," not found elsewhere on the Web. | |
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The Academy of American Poets: W. H. Auden This site includes a bibliography, a biographical entry, twelve poems (with an audio file of "On the Circuit") and links to two pertinent AAP exhibitions: | |
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W. H. Auden (1907-1973) A bibiography and a brief biography with hypertext may be found here. | |
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Medical Humanities/Literature Arts & Medicine One will find synopses of a few of Auden's poems on this interesting interdisciplinary page posted at NYU. |
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