Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh) (1907–73)
Poet. He began to be taken seriously as a poet while still at Christ Church, Oxford (1925–8), where he was much influenced by Anglo‐Saxon and Middle English poetry, but also began to explore the means of preserving ‘private spheres’ (through poetry) in ‘public chaos’ which would become a hallmark of his work. Among his contemporaries were ... ...
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