Peter Ackroyd, novelist and literary biographer, perhaps most famous for his work on William Blake, has now turned his eye ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new biography explores the life of WH Auden, one of the most important and enduring poets of his time - Harry Redl/Time Life ...

In a 1960 review of books of poetry by Philip Larkin and Geoffrey Hill, W.H. Auden remarked: “To write about a poet for others who have not yet read him is not criticism but reviewing, and reviewing ...

WH Auden (1907–1973) was a British-American poet whose first collection of poetry Poems was published by TS Eliot, the master himself, for Faber and Faber in 1930. Ten years later, Auden published his ...

Any writer is grateful for attention, especially praise. I imagine that the late Anglo-American poet W.H. Auden (1907-1973) would warm to Alexander McCall Smith, a lawyer-novelist of distinction, for ...

The Island: War and Belonging in Auden’s England; By Nicholas Jenkins; Harvard University Press; 656 pp., $35.00 Perhaps only someone susceptible to fascism could see its full menace. Still, Auden’s ...

The Shield of Achilles By W.H. Auden, edited by Alan Jacobs; Princeton University Press; 136 pp., $22.95 After Auden, English speakers no longer had what they had for 200 years, from at least ...

DOTHAN, Ala. (WTVY) - Dothan Houston County Library Director Chris Warren joined News4 This Morning to tell us about the newest Chapter Chat pick. April is National Poetry Month, so this month’s pick ...

Next week marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of poet W.H. Auden. Listen as Auden reads his 1957 poem "The More Loving One." This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Debbie Elliott. Next ...

W.H. Auden is a Greek poet, at least when it comes to nature. No, I don’t mean that he is all about olive trees and white sand beaches: I mean there is something fundamentally classical in his ...

As I mention in my review of Ridley Scott’s new War on Terror thriller “Body of Lies,” the movie opens with these lines from W.H. Auden‘s “September 1, 1939 ...

It's one of those poems people reach for in times when it feels like the sky is falling. It's also generally regarded as one of the great poems of the 20th century. "September 1, 1939," as its title ...