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W. H. Auden

1907 - 1973

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Wystan Hugh Auden (; 21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973) was a British-American poet. Auden's poetry is noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and its variety in tone, form, and content. Some of his best known poems are about love, such as "Funeral Blues"; on political and social themes, such as "September 1, 1939" and "The Shield of Achilles"; on cultural and psychological themes, such as The Age of Anxiety; and on religious themes, such as "For the Time Being" and "Horae Canonicae". Auden was born in York and grew up in and near Birmingham in a professional, middle-class family. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. W. H. Auden is the 245th most popular writer (up from 847th in 2019), the 223rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 640th in 2019) and the 25th most popular British Writer.

W. H. Auden is most famous for his poetry. He was a British poet who was born in the United States, but moved to England as a child. He is best known for his long poems "September 1, 1939" and "Funeral Blues."

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Among writers, W. H. Auden ranks 245 out of 7,302. Before him are Lucian, Friedrich Schlegel, Juvenal, Ferdowsi, Prosper Mérimée, and Lou Andreas-Salomé. After him are Gerhart Hauptmann, C. S. Lewis, Mansur Al-Hallaj, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Osamu Dazai, and Grazia Deledda.

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Among people born in 1907, W. H. Auden ranks 10. Before him are Claus von Stauffenberg, John Wayne, Ayub Khan, Katharine Hepburn, Oscar Niemeyer, and Alexander R. Todd. After him are Mircea Eliade, J. Hans D. Jensen, Alberto Moravia, Hergé, Maria Branyas, and Lee Miller. Among people deceased in 1973, W. H. Auden ranks 12. Before him are Salvador Allende, Erich von Manstein, Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden, Lyndon B. Johnson, Pearl S. Buck, and Fulgencio Batista. After him are Walter Ulbricht, İsmet İnönü, J. Hans D. Jensen, Ivan Konev, Paavo Nurmi, and Hans Kelsen.

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Among people born in United Kingdom, W. H. Auden ranks 223 out of 8,785. Before him are Saint Boniface (680), Catherine Howard (1523), Guy Fawkes (1570), Æthelbald, King of Wessex (831), George Stephenson (1781), and John Harvard (1607). After him are William John Macquorn Rankine (1820), Humphry Davy (1778), T. E. Lawrence (1888), Marie of Romania (1875), Joseph Priestley (1733), and Ringo Starr (1940).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, W. H. Auden ranks 25. Before him are John Milton (1608), Charlotte Brontë (1816), Geoffrey Chaucer (1343), Aldous Huxley (1894), Terry Pratchett (1948), and William Blake (1757). After him are C. S. Lewis (1898), J. K. Rowling (1965), Mary Wollstonecraft (1759), Arthur C. Clarke (1917), Anne Brontë (1820), and William Golding (1911).

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