W H Auden
Poet
W H Auden
1907 - 1973Wystan Hugh Auden (21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973) was an English-American poet. Auden's poetry was noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and its variety in tone, form and content. He is best known for love poems such as "Funeral Blues"; poems on political and social themes such as "September 1, 1939" and "The Shield of Achilles"; poems on cultural and psychological themes such as The Age of Anxiety; and poems on religious themes such as "For the Time Being" and "Horae Canonicae".[1][2][3] To read some of Auden's poetry, click here.
He was born in York, grew up in and near Birmingham in a professional middle-class family. He attended English independent (or public) schools and studied English at Christ Church, Oxford. Click here for more information on visiting Christ Church during your stay in Oxford.
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Song List
This list is likely to be of songs that have been performed at Oxford International Song Festivals and Oxford Song events, and may not be comprehensive of this composer's compositions. This database is ever growing as a work in progress, with further songs regularly being added.
| In Memory of W B Yeats - I | Elizabeth Maconchy |
| In Memory of W B Yeats - II | Elizabeth Maconchy |
| Lullaby - ‘Lay your Sleeping Head’ (2007) | Nicola LeFanu |
