* September 29 – W. H. Auden, English poet ( b. 1907 )

* " September 1, 1939 " ( 1939 ) by poet W. H. Auden

* September 11 – The Rake's Progress, an opera by Igor Stravinsky with libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, premieres in Venice, conducted by the composer.

* September 29-W. H. Auden, poet

In 1935 he married Janet Adam Smith, critic and anthologist, and fellow mountaineer ; they lived in Fern Avenue, Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne where they were visited by W. H. Auden in September 1937.

* W. H. Auden: Three Short Poems coro misto 1 '

In April 1939 Britten and Pears followed Auden to America.

Auden wrote it in 1939, shortly after moving from England to the United States.

Auden had moved from the UK to the USA in 1939, and had been directly involved in the American poetry scene, particularly through his time spent on the Yale Younger Poets.

Parkman brought the noted poet Richard Eberhart to the school as an English teacher from 1933 – 1941, and W. H. Auden for a brief appointment in 1939.

Lewis, essayist Edward Hoagland, literary critic Camille Paglia, rhetorician Kenneth Burke, fomer United Artists ' senior vice-president Steven Bach, novelists Bernard Malamud and John Gardner, trumpeter / composer Bill Dixon, composers Allen Shawn, Henry Brant, and Vivian Fine, painters Kenneth Noland and Jules Olitski, politicians Mansour Farhang and Mac Maharaj, poets Léonie Adams and Howard Nemerov, sculptor Anthony Caro, dancer / choreographer Martha Graham, drummer Milford Graves, author William " Bill " Butler ( author of The Butterfly Revolution ), economist Karl Polanyi and a number of Pulitzer Prize-winning poets including W. H. Auden, Stanley Kunitz, Mary Oliver, Theodore Roethke and Anne Waldman.

"), W. H. Auden (" This great society is going smash / A culture is no better than its woods ", from his poem " Bucolics: II, Woods "), and a reading of Lewis Carroll's poem " Jabberwocky ".

He was regarded by many as one of the most promising poets of the day ; Francis Scarfe devoted a whole chapter to him in Auden and After.

The poet W. H. Auden was familiar with this whole area of the North Pennines and its derelict lead mines, having visited Rookhope at the age of 12 in 1919.

From the 1930s, a revival of the form took place across the English-speaking world, led by poets such as W. H. Auden, and the 1950s were described as the " age of the sestina " by James E. B. Breslin.

W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice wrote Letters From Iceland ( 1937 ) to describe their travels through that country.

* From Happy Knack: " Depending on how the next volume pans out, the complete Life is going to be at least treble and possibly quadruple the size of your average biography of Auden, Eliot or Pound, and might even outdo the Bible, which was of course written by divers hands, over a 1500-year period, and may have been assisted in its composition by the Spirit of God Him or Herself.

His plans to write an opera with W. H. Auden coincided with a meeting with the musicologist Robert Craft, who became Stravinsky's interpreter, chronicler, assistant conductor and factotum for countless musical and social tasks, living with him until his death.

Another lovely example concerns the painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, thought until recently to be by Pieter Brueghel the Elder which is described in the poems " Musée des Beaux Arts " by WH Auden and William Carlos Williams's poem " Landscape with the Fall of Icarus ".

Bernhard died in December 1987, but until his death, Bernhard continued his literary interests by combining with W. H. Auden, Jacques Barzun and Lionel Trilling in founding the Mid-Century Book Society.

The villanelle has been used regularly in the English language since the late 19th century by such poets as Dylan Thomas, W. H. Auden, and Elizabeth Bishop.

As a reciter West has worked with all the major British orchestras, as well as the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D. C .. Works include Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex and The Soldier's Tale, Prokofiev's Eugene Onegin, Beethoven's Egmont, Schoenburg's Ode To Napoleon, Strauss ' Enoch Arden, Saint-Saëns ’ Carnival of the Animals, Bernstein's Kaddish, Walton's Façade and Henry V, Night Mail and The Way to the Sea by Britten and Auden and the world premieres of Concrete by Judith Weir at the Barbican and Howard Goodall ’ s Jason and the Argonauts at the Royal Albert Hall.

Modern literary use includes W. H. Auden, and it has notably been advanced by Dana Gioia ; see New Formalism for other modern and contemporary uses rhythm, including accentual verse, in English language poetry.

The poet early perfected a style, derived from Auden but decidedly individual, which he has not developed in later life but has temporarily replaced with the clear Rilke-like rhetoric of his Adam and Eve poems, the frankly Whitmanesque convolutions of his latest work.

Raine has commented on his education: " At Barnard Castle I was taught by an absolutely remarkable English teacher, Arnold Snodgrass, a friend of W. H. Auden at Oxford later Robert Graves.

A broader movement of New Romantics has been postulated, to cover many of the British poets between the ' Auden group ' of the 1930s and The Movement.

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Another strip in a Christmas edition of Viz has Plod as the central figure in the poem Night Mail by W. H. Auden, (" This is the night mail, crossing the border, bringing the cheque and the postal order ...").

More recently, in Serious Poetry: Form and Authority from Yeats to Hill, he has challenged contemporary views of poetry and personality with new readings of Yeats, W. H. Auden, T. S. Eliot and Geoffrey Hill.

His lifelong adherence to and assimilation of Anglo-American culture was consolidated by his studies in Oxford in 1953 where he read T. S. Eliot for the first time in English ( along with W. H. Auden and Stephen Spender ), thus beginning a lifelong fascination with the work of the Anglo-American poet.

The volume includes what W. H. Auden considered Tolkien's best poem, The Sea-Bell, subtitled Frodos Dreme.

" W. H. Auden comments on Causley stating that " Causley stayed true to what he called his ' guiding principle ' ... while there are some good poems which are only for adults, because they pre-suppose adult experience in their readers, there are no good poems which are only for children.

He was not, however, drawn far into what was soon known as the Auden Group ; he is identified much more with the type of poetry later exemplified by Lawrence Durrell, and is for some critics the stand-out in the Cairo poets.

The last two lines of the Act IV-scene 2 funeral song may also have inspired the lines W. H. Auden, the librettist for Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress, puts into the mouth of Anne Truelove at the end of the opera: " Every wearied body must late or soon return to dust ".

Many of the most renowned " serious " poets, such as Horace, Swift, Pope and Auden, have also excelled at light verse.

The poetic imagee of the decade was dominated by four poets ; W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Cecil Day-Lewis and Louis MacNeice, although the last of these belongs at least as much to the history of Irish poetry.

Auden at Cooper Union in New York City.

According to legend, the gay population began to concentrate in Cherry Grove at Duffy's Hotel with Christopher Isherwood and W. H. Auden dressed as Dionysus and Ganymede and carried aloft on a gilded litter by a group of singing followers.

While at Oxford Price formed important friendships with the poets W. H Auden and Stephen Spender as well as the biographer Lord David Cecil which helped to spur his writing career on.

The contest is regarded by some to have been at its height from 1947 to 1959, when W. H. Auden was choosing the winners.

He was educated at St. George ’ s School in Harpenden, and at Wadham College, Oxford, where he associated with W. H. Auden and Cecil Day Lewis, and published in Oxford Poetry.

At Marlborough he knew John Betjeman and Louis MacNeice ; at Oxford Stephen Spender, and he also came across W. H. Auden.

I am not one of your fashionable pansies like Auden or Spender, I was six months in Spain, most of the time fighting, I have a bullet hole in me at present and I am not going to write blah about defending democracy or gallant little anybody ..."

Bynner and Hunt had numerous parties at their house, hosting many notable writers, actors, and artists, which guests included Ansel Adams, Willa Cather, Igor Stravinsky, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Robert Frost, W. H. Auden, Aldous Huxley, Clara Bow, Errol Flynn, Rita Hayworth, Christopher Isherwood, Carl Van Vechten, Martha Graham, Georgia O ' Keeffe and Thornton Wilder.

" However, as a freshman English student at Bard College in New York he discovered the works of Stevens, Auden, Eliot, and Dylan Thomas.

Even at this stage Hecht's poetry was often compared with that of Auden, with whom Hecht had become friends in 1951 during a holiday on the Italian island of Ischia, where Auden spent each summer.

Auden at the time, further encouraged that enthusiasm.

The poet W. H. Auden spent three years teaching English at the Downs School ( 1932 – 1935 ; he returned for the summer term in 1937 when the English master was away ) He was loved as one of the more extravagant and eccentric teachers, who supplemented his teaching of English by teaching pupils how to make spitballs stick to the ceiling.

Auden lived at the school in a cottage that he named " Lawrence Villa " ( one of his allusions to D. H. Lawrence ); during the summer term he took his bed out to the lawn ; thus the opening line of his poem " Out on the lawn I lie in bed ".

Benjamin Britten, Hedli Anderson and William Coldstream visited Auden at the school several times to work on Auden, Britten and Coldstream's collaboration for the G. P. O.

Among the poems that Auden wrote at the Downs were " Hearing of harvests "; his evocation of his " Vision of Agape " in June 1933, " Out on the lawn I lie in bed " ( later dedicated to Geoffrey Hoyland ); " Our hunting fathers "; " Look, stranger "; and, during his return in 1937, the despairing " Schoolchildren ".