Word: wystan
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...discusses Indochina with Andre Malraux and observes that the Frenchman has a tic that "is something like a snort from the nose, and when he becomes excited and voluble, it sounds like the exhaust from a car." He visits W.H. Auden in a completely unheated New York City loft. "Wystan started up some queer kind of little stove, but we sat in our overcoats and our breath went up in vapor." Vladimir Nabokov comes for a visit, and they start arguing about how various English and Russian words should be pronounced. Wilson concludes that the novelist has "something...
Died. W.H. (for Wystan Hugh) Auden, 66, British-born Pulitzer prizewinning poet (see BOOKS...
Despite his ultra-British manner, he was an American poet through earnestly adopted nationality and 30 years' residence. Until Wystan Hugh Auden died in Vienna last week at 66, no contemporary writer struck so well or held so long and so humanely the characteristic poetic note...
Slums and slag heaps, Freudian phrases and Marxian metaphors, the fall of prices and the Fall of Man-all found a place in Wystan Auden's writing. No poet more constantly and conscientiously tried to extend the domain of things poetical...
...shouldn't I spend my second childhood in the country where I spent a happy first childhood?" By way of answer to that question, Poet Wystan Hugh Auden is going to give up his $35a-week apartment in Manhattan's East Village for a $9-a-week "grace and favor" cottage at Oxford, England. A New Yorker since 1939 and a U.S. citizen since 1946, Auden is anxious "to dispel any feeling that I am disgruntled with America or aggravated by life in New York. If I were 40, or even 50, I would stay here...