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Couzyn, Jeni, editor. The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Women Poets. Bloodaxe Books, 1985.
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W. H. Auden
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Standard Name: Auden, W. H.
Used Form: Wystan Hugh Auden
WHA
has been called the outstanding poet of his generation. His prolific output of poetry is endlessly versatile, often deeply personal but usually also carrying political freight, often experimental, combining the classical and the colloquial, the lyric and the deliberately prosaic. He wrote a great deal in collaboration, often for stage or even operatic performance. He was a riveting lecturer and an unsystematic but always stimulating literary critic.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| politics | Sybille Bedford | At this time, with a German passport near its expiry date and an application for French citizenship which had so far gone nowhere, she attracted the attention of the Nazi authorities not only by expressing... |
| politics | Rosamond Lehmann | RL
, like many of the left-wing intellectuals in the inter-war period, supported the fight against fascism in Spain. Her husband Wogan and many of her male friends, including Auden
, joined the International Brigade |
| politics | Virginia Woolf | Through the 1930s, Woolf struggled to define herself and her work against the rise of Fascism in Europe, to chart the relationship between artistic and political tasks. She and her Bloomsbury friends began to be... |
| Reception | Elizabeth Jennings | EJ
has said that at this date she was beginning to achieve in her work a certain mastery of form |
| Reception | Marianne Moore | A late flowering of MM
's reputation began when she spoke at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in a double bill with W. H. Auden
. Williams, Mary-Kay. “What a Mother”. London Review of Books, Vol. 37 , No. 23, 3 Dec. 2015, p. 19021. 21 |
| Textual Features | Philip Larkin | As an undergraduate Larkin was naturally still finding his voice. One poem dating from probably 1943 has its title and its lesbian topic from Charles Baudelaire
: Femmes Damnées. Larkin's poem of this title... |
| Textual Features | Adrienne Rich | This volume's title and epigraph are taken from The Great Gatsby. Like AR
's other works, Dark Fields of the Republic reflects a diverse group of artistic and social influences, which include the Bible... |
| Textual Features | Carol Ann Duffy | Critic Deryn Rees-Jones
discerns widely varied influences on CAD
's work: mainstream English poets like Wordsworth
, Robert Browning
, T. S. Eliot
, Auden
, Dylan Thomas
, Larkin
, and Ted Hughes
... |
| Textual Features | Seamus Heaney | These pieces cover elders and friends (Larkin
, Walcott
, Patrick Kavanagh
), poets of Eastern Europe where poetry performs the service of resistance to political oppression (as it might do in Northern Ireland... |
| Textual Production | Anne Stevenson | As an undergraduate at the University of Michigan
, her models included the suave, disciplined, informal, very accessible Stevenson, Anne. Between the Iceberg and the Ship. University of Michigan Press, 1998. 122 |
| Textual Production | Jan Morris | Morris wrote on a wide range of topics for the Times, contributing The Comic Strip in American Life and The Plays of Eugene O'Neill to a collection of articles jointly titled The American Press... |
| Textual Production | Christine Brooke-Rose | Here she examines Stephen Crane
, Nathaniel Hawthorne
, Ezra Pound
, and W. H. Auden
, as examples of the role and operation of poets or fiction writers who also produce criticism. |
| Textual Production | Laura Riding | Though LR
had recently been publishing prose works in the USA as well as at London, she had issued no book of poems there since The Close Chaplet twelve years before. Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books, 2005. 320 |
| Textual Production | Nancy Cunard | The poems included Auden
's Spain. OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
| Textual Production | Maureen Duffy | MD
's website features a series of poems indignantly addressed to William Langland
, author of Piers Plowman, of behalf of the new, unacknowledged poor. The New Vision of Piers Plowless sets the scene:... |
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