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British-American poet (1907–1973)
Also known as: Auden, W. H. Wystan Hugh Auden, W.H. Auden, Whystan Hugh Auden, Wystan Auden, Wystan H. Auden
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- Louis MacNeice1907–1963ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yet
Shares the 1930s socially aware, conversational lyric mode and co-wrote Letters from Iceland. (AI reason)
Stephen Spender1909–1995ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetWrites politically engaged 1930s lyric poetry with a similar urban, modern sensibility. (AI reason)
Christopher Isherwood1904–1986ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetOffers wry, observant prose of the interwar era and co-authored Journey to a War. (AI reason)
Cecil Day-Lewis1904–1972ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetBelongs to the same 1930s poetic circle with formally skilled, socially conscious verse. (AI reason)
T. S. Eliot1888–1965ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetCombines modernist technique with religious and cultural reflection in intellectually dense verse. (AI reason)
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Philip Larkin1922–1985ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetWrites formally controlled, ironic, plain-spoken poems about ordinary modern life. (AI reason)
James Merrill1926–1995ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetUses witty, virtuosic formal verse blending urbane conversation with metaphysical themes. (AI reason)
Joseph Brodsky1940–1996ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetWrites metaphysically probing, formally rigorous poems with ironic intellectual wit. (AI reason)
John Betjeman1906–1984ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetWrites light, metrically deft verse with gentle social observation and humour. (AI reason)
Thomas Hardy1840–1928ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetWrites formally varied lyric poetry of rueful, reflective tone that shaped this mode of English verse. (AI reason)
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- Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
- The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
- Prentice Hall Literature--The American Experience
- The United States in Literature -- The Glass Menagerie Edition
- The United States in Literature -- All My Sons Edition (1973)