The school's former students ( Old Greshamians ) include Benjamin Britten, W. H. Auden, Lord Reith, Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, President Erskine Childers, Sir Christopher Cockerell, Donald Maclean, Sir Lennox Berkeley, Sir Stephen Spender, Tom Wintringham, Sir James Dyson, Ralph Firman, Sir Peter Brook, Sebastian Shaw, Sienna Guillory and Michael Cummings.

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

Auden was later to correspond with Tolkien, and they became friends.

" Tolkien wrote to W. H. Auden that The Marvellous Land of Snergs " was probably an unconscious source-book for the Hobbits " and he told an interviewer that the word hobbit " might have been associated with Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt " ( like hobbits, George Babbitt enjoys the comforts of his home ).

In a 1967 letter to W. H. Auden, Tolkien wrote, " Thank you for your wonderful effort in translating and reorganizing The Song of the Sibyl.

His notable output of biographies included: J. R. R. Tolkien ( 1977 ) ( also editing of The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien ), The Inklings ( 1978 ), W. H. Auden ( 1981 ), Ezra Pound ( 1988 ), Evelyn Waugh ( 1989 ), Benjamin Britten ( 1992 ), Robert Runcie ( 1997 ), and Spike Milligan ( 2004 ).

In a 1967 letter to W. H. Auden, Tolkien had written, " Thank you for your wonderful effort in translating and reorganizing The Song of the Sibyl.

W. H. Auden, in his review of the sequel The Fellowship of the Ring calls The Hobbit " one of the best children's stories of this century ".

" In the same review, Lowell calls Jarrell's first book of poems, Blood for A Stranger, " a tour-de-force in the manner of Auden.

Auden also wrote ' Ode ', one of his most popular poems from his earlier career when based in London, in opposition to people's ignorance over the reality of war.

Auden, who declared ( in one of the interludes in The Dyer's Hand ) that West's novels were essentially " parables about a Kingdom of Hell whose ruler is not so much a Father of Lies as a Father of Wishes ".

The musical February House, a co-production by the Long Wharf Theatre and New York's Public Theater in 2012 features Carson McCullers as one of the major characters and depicts her relationship with George Davis as well as her friendships with W. H. Auden and Erika Mann.

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.

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 ..."

His book from 1942 was one of the first to engage critically with the Auden Group, if superficially ; he returned to Auden in a post-war book of greater depth.

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 ".

The epigraph to Auden's posthumously-published play The Chase ( written in 1935 ) was a poem by a Downs pupil, John Bowes, that had been mocked by the other pupils in one of Auden's classes ; Auden rebuked them by saying that the poem was not only satisfactory but that he would use it in his next book.

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

Mr. Auden is even reported to have claimed that these books were as good as War and Peace ; Edwin Muir and many others were almost equally enthusiastic.

The Viking Book of Aphorisms, edited by W. H. Auden and Louis Kronenberger, contains more entries by Halifax ( 60 ) than by any other English language author except Samuel Johnson.

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.

The card was signed " Tommy, Liverpool, January 1940 ", and on it were the words ( quoted from W. H. Auden ): " The world is love.

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.

In his foreword to Markings, the English poet W. H. Auden quotes Hammarskjöld as stating " In our age, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

He was part of a group of writers including Isherwood ( with whom he created the surreal world of the Mortmere stories ), W. H. Auden and Stephen Spender.

This collection was chosen by W. H. Auden as part of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, and Auden commended it in his introduction as " providing a new direction for nature poetry in the post-Wordsworthian world.

While modernist poetry in English is often viewed as an American phenomenon, with leading exponents including Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, H. D., and Louis Zukofsky, there were important British modernist poets, including David Jones, Hugh MacDiarmid, Basil Bunting, and W. H. Auden.

W. H. Auden called it " a pure verbal opera ", while The Times wrote that " The story is almost too preposterous to go without music.

W. H. Auden praises it, saying " To succeed in these tales, as Berlioz most brilliantly does, requires a combination of qualities which is very rare, the many-faceted curiosity of the dramatist with the aggressively personal vision of the lyric poet.

The Bassarids ( composed 1964-65, premiere 1966 ), to a libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, is the most famous opera composed by Hans Werner Henze.

* " Whitsunday in Kirchstetten " is a poem by W. H. Auden from his collection About the House.

Auden is a surname, and may refer to:

The Unknown Citizen is a poem by W. H. Auden.

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 ".

The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue ( 1947 ; first UK edition, 1948 ) is a long poem in six parts by W. H. Auden, written mostly in a modern version of Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse.

It is also the title of a poem by W. H. Auden.

His work, influenced by W. H. Auden, is intensely original and many consider him to be, as Betjeman was, a man working outside of the dominant trends of the poetry of his day.

The libretto, written by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, is based loosely on the eight paintings and engravings A Rake's Progress ( 1733 – 1735 ) of William Hogarth, which Stravinsky had seen on 2 May 1947, in a Chicago exhibition.

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 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.

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 ...").

"), 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 ".

Auden wrote, " The main theme of The Unexpected Universe is Man as the Quest Hero, the wanderer, the voyager, the seeker after adventure, knowledge, power, meaning, and righteousness.

Among the films it produced were Harry Watt's and Basil Wright's Night Mail ( 1936 ), featuring music by Benjamin Britten and poetry by W. H. Auden, which is the best known.

" Musée des Beaux Arts " ( French for " Museum of Fine Arts ") is the title of a poem by W. H. Auden from 1938.