After a spell as a journalist in Vienna, he returned to England to found the popular periodical New Writing ( 1936 – 1940 ) in book format, which proved a great influence on literature of the period and an outlet for writers such as Christopher Isherwood and W. H. Auden.

As a youth between the World Wars the poet W. H. Auden walked amid the wild countryside and the relics of the lead mining industry in and around Weardale and found these a lifelong source of inspiration.

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.

In Letter to Lord Byron, Auden called him " that lonely old volcano of the Right.

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.

W. H. Auden stayed at the Lord Crewe Arms with Gabriel Carritt at Easter 1930, and later remarked that no place held sweeter memories.

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 ".

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 ".

W. H. Auden called his book-length " The Age of Anxiety "( 1944-1946 ) a " Baroque Eclogue ".

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 ".

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 ".

Quoting his favorite poet, W. H. Auden, Schwartz insists we must " love each other or perish ".

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 ".

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 ".

"), 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 ".

Mitchell was praised for his work with the Jimi Hendrix Experience on the songs " Manic Depression ", " Stepping Stone ", " Little Miss Strange ", " Voodoo Child ( Slight Return )", " Fire " and " Third Stone from the Sun ".

The " Return of the Mayflower " ( shown at the Goupil Gallery, New York in 1871 ) was praised as " as a picture which will live as long as the memory of the Mayflower itself lasts.

The novel, which was praised by Stephen King, is similar to King's It in its focus on small town life, the corruption of innocence, the return of an ancient evil, and the responsibility for others that emerges with the transition from youth to adulthood.

Lovecraft was also influenced by authors such as Gertrude Barrows Bennett ( who, writing as Francis Stevens, impressed Lovecraft enough that he publicly praised her stories and eventually " emulated Bennett's earlier style and themes "), Oswald Spengler, Robert W. Chambers ( writer of The King in Yellow, of whom Lovecraft wrote in a letter to Clark Ashton Smith: " Chambers is like Rupert Hughes and a few other fallen Titans — equipped with the right brains and education but wholly out of the habit of using them ").

For example, the diplomatic correspondence from King Bu of Wa to Emperor Shun of Liu Song in 478 has been praised for its skillful use of allusion.

The speech of Belgian King Baudouin praised developments under colonialism, his reference to the " genius " of his great-granduncle Leopold II of Belgium glossing over atrocities committed during the Congo Free State.

King Agrippa stood and received it and read standing, and the sages praised him for doing so.

Brân is praised in the poetry of 12th century bard Cynddelw Brydydd Mawr, in which he is described as " a good commander of the host ; in battle, in hostile territory, in the contest, in stress ", while, in his elegy for Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Prince of Wales, Bleddyn Fardd compares the overthrow of the prince to the deaths of Llywelyn Fawr, King Arthur and Brân.

Sometime later, during a Christmas feast, a crowd of lords, knights, and squires praised King Maelgwn Gwynedd.

Her Star Trek character was groundbreaking in the racist society at the time, and civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. personally praised her work on the show and asked her to remain when she was considering leaving the series.

Although reviled by one contemporary writer as an " evil counsellor " to the king, modern historians have been more forgiving ; one praised his intelligence and others stated that de Gray was one of the few men King John trusted throughout his life.

Later on the King of Norway, Harald Hardradi ( died 1066 ) is praised by two Court-Scalds for summoning the leidangr to attack Denmark.

In the New York Times Book Review, author Stephen King stated the Goblet of Fire was " every bit as good as Potters 1 through 3 " and praised the humour and subplots, although he commented that " there's also a moderately tiresome amount of adolescent squabbling ... it's a teenage thing ".

Atterbury's treatise, though highly praised by Bishop Gilbert Burnet, was more distinguished for the vigour of his rhetoric than the soundness of his arguments, and the Papists accused him of treason, and of having, by implication, called King James " Judas ".

In the years following the war ( after 1671 ) the King was often praised as Louis le Grand or Ludovicus Magnus ( Ludwig the Great ), and on the suggestion of Colbert, the finance minister, even a triumphal arch was to be built in Paris ; however, construction was abandoned in 1671.

The survey has been widely praised, described as " brilliant and exhaustive " by military historian D. J. Cathcart King in 1949 and " perhaps the finest account of the archaeology and history of a single medieval castle ever written " by historian Hugh Kennedy in 1994.

Philippa and King John ’ s union was praised for establishing purity and virtue in a court that was regarded as particularly corrupt.

As Neo-Confucian philosophy became more influential in the later Korean Dynasties, Gyebaek was recognized by historians and scholars are exemplifying the Confucian ideals of patriotism and devotion to his King and praised as such.

His victory at Bushy Run was celebrated in the British colonies — church bells rang through the night in Philadelphia — and praised by King George.

In 1802 King praised them stating, " the utmost order and regularity has uniformly prevailed amongst the non-commissioned officers and privates.

It was around this time that Xunzi visited the state of Qin and praised its governance, and debated military affairs with Lord Linwu ( 臨武君 ) in the court of King Xiaocheng of Zhao ( 趙孝成王 ).

The opening ceremony was attended by notables such as Sir Frank Dyson, former Astronomer Royal, and former Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, who praised the Observatory as " a gift to science all over the world.

During his life, Stevens authored several other books, including a two-volume biography of Swedish King Gustavus Adolphus and his involvement in the Thirty Years War, praised by The New York Times as showing " extensive research and much patient reading.

Henry the Young King, whom Bertran had praised and criticised in his poems, died on campaign in June 1183 in Martel.

Underland. com praised the plot line as a " very King Arthur like tale of love and betrayal.

Allmusic's Bruce Eder praised the album, saying that it was better produced than their debut, but he also said that it " doesn't tread enough new ground to precisely rival In the Court of the Crimson King ".