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...Wystan Hugh Auden will present a reading of his own poetry with commentary today at 4 p.m. in the New Lecture Hall. The reading, open to the public, is under the auspices of the Morris Gray Poetry Fund...
...York, Poet W. H. (for Wystan Hugh) Auden, 46, 1948 Pulitzer Prizewinner (The Age of Anxiety), was informed that he has won another award: the Bollingen Prize in Poetry, offered by the Yale University Library in recognition of Auden's lifetime work...
...Wystan Hugh Auden is a monstrous clever fellow. As an undergraduate at Oxford (1925-28) he was the most precocious of a literary set that included such precocities as Louis MacNeice, Stephen Spender, Christopher Isherwood, Cecil Day Lewis. These lads were esthetes-with-a-difference: instead of snubbing the grown-up world, they lit into it with sardonic and superior howls. At least one of them (Spender) went all the way to Communism before he got his second wind. Auden went even further...
...Wystan Hugh Auden, British poet, writer, and anthologist, will give the twelfth and last lecture of the Cervantes IV Centenary Series at 8 o'clock this evening in the Institute of Geographical Exploration...
Though U.S. readers may still think of Poet Wystan Hugh Auden as an Englishman in exile, he has been a U.S. citizen since May 1946. As a U.S. man of letters, Auden at 40-Old Oxonian, old leftist intellectual, Wandervogel, versifier extraordinary, theological lyricist-is a figure of great oddity, and of considerable importance. The Age of Anxiety, subtitled "A Baroque Eclogue," glitters with evidence of both...