It was Grierson who coined the term " documentary " to describe a non-fiction film, and he produced the movement's most celebrated film of the 1930s, Night Mail ( 1936 ), written and directed by Basil Wright and Harry Watt, and incorporating the poem by W. H. Auden.

Bernard Holland claimed Stravinsky was especially fond of British writers, who visited him in Beverly Hills, " like W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood, Dylan Thomas.

As a writer he was considered by T. S. Eliot to be of major importance, and his The Anathemata was considered by W. H. Auden to be the best long poem written in English in the 20th century.

The poem received mixed reviews, but was acclaimed by other literary artists such as W. H. Auden, Kathleen Raine and William Carlos Williams.

" 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 ).

He subsequently met W. H. Auden, who was also working for the GPO Film Unit ; together they worked on the films Coal Face and Night Mail.

An opera of the same title was composed by Nicolas Nabokov, with a libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman.

The libretto was by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman.

Igor Stravinsky's 1951 opera The Rake's Progress, with libretto by W. H. Auden, was less literally inspired by the same series.

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

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.

Berlin in the 20s also proved to be a haven for English writers such as W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender and Christopher Isherwood, who wrote a series of ' Berlin novels ', inspiring the play I Am a Camera, which was later adapted into a musical, Cabaret, and an Academy Award winning film of the same name.

He was admired in his lifetime by W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood, Eudora Welty, Anthony Burgess, and Rebecca West.

Ern Malley, he thought, was a poet in the same class as W. H. Auden or Dylan Thomas.

Louis MacNeice ( 1907 – 1963 ), another Northern Irish poet, was associated with the left-wing politics of Michael Roberts's anthology New Signatures but was much less political a poet than W. H. Auden or Stephen Spender, for example.

These include Thomas Kinsella ( born 1928 ), whose early work was influenced by 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.

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.

* In his autobiography, Christopher Isherwood recalled that when he and W. H. Auden encountered Napoleon's tomb on a 1922 school trip to France, their first reaction was to quote The Outline's negative assessment of the French ruler.

Poetry was a prime element in the Faber list and under T. S. Eliot's aegis W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender and Louis MacNeice soon joined Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, Wyndham Lewis, John Gould Fletcher, Roy Campbell, James Joyce and Walter de la Mare.

The name was used occasionally in the Middle Ages and again more recently, e. g. for Wystan Hugh Auden.

* British poet W. H. Auden was named in honor of Saint Wystan, video clip of him reading his work, bearing his full name.

The selection, by W. H. Auden, of Ashbery's first collection, Some Trees, later caused some controversy.

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.

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.

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 ".

Bowes ( later second master at Bryanston School ) and Auden corresponded in later years, and Auden stayed with Bowes and his wife in Cheltenham in 1972.

Auden's " Funeral Blues " ( also known as " Stop all the clocks ", later to become famous through its use in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral ) was originally written for Anderson and set to music by Britten as part of Auden and Isherwood's play The Ascent of F6 ( 1936 ), then revised by Auden as a separate poem.

Berlin in the 1920s also proved to be a haven for English writers such as W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender and Christopher Isherwood, who wrote a series of ' Berlin novels ', inspiring the play I Am a Camera, which was later adapted into a musical, Cabaret, and an Academy Award winning film of the same name.

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

* Archifanfaro translated by W. H. Auden with an introduction by Michael Andre in Unmuzzled OX.

At the funeral, Matthew recites the poem Funeral Blues (" Stop all the clocks ...") by W. H. Auden, commemorating his relationship with Gareth.

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.

In particular, W. H. Auden criticised this aspect of Yeats ' work as the " deplorable spectacle of a grown man occupied with the mumbo-jumbo of magic and the nonsense of India.

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.

The texts and literary sources for his work began with a period of interest in Russian folklore, which progressed to classical authors and the Latin liturgy and moved on to contemporary France ( André Gide, in Persephone ) and eventually English literature, including Auden, T. S. Eliot and medieval English verse.

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.

Britten completed the choral works Hymn to St. Cecilia ( his last large-scale collaboration with Auden ) and A Ceremony of Carols during the long sea voyage.

Auden and " Landscape with the Fall of Icarus " by William Carlos Williams.

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.

* 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.

* June 15 – W. H. Auden enters a marriage of convenience with Erika Mann.

At university he associated with W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice and Walter Allen.

with an introduction by W. H. Auden.

The economic depression, combined with the impact of the Spanish Civil War, also saw the emergence, in the Britain of the 1930s, of a more overtly political poetry, as represented by such writers as W. H. Auden and Stephen Spender.

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 ".