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...Wystan Hugh Auden, one of England's greatest living poets, will give a reading of selections from his own poetry tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in Emerson D. Auden, at 38, is the author of almost a dozen books including "Another Time," "The Double Man," and "On This island"; he has also collaborated with Christopher isherwood on several works. Anthologies of his poems, usually including the well-known "Dance of Death," and "The Orator," have been widely reprinted...
...Wystan Hugh Auden, tall, towheaded English-born poet (For the Time Being), was chosen by the American Academy of Arts & Letters to receive its quinquennial Award of Merit Medal and $1,000 cash prize. Not given for any one work, the award lauded "the beauty of his poetry the unusually pungent, satirical style...
King's Medalist. By any U.S. standard, Poet Wystan (rhymes with piston) Hugh Auden is an odd fish. To such plain U.S. readers as may be exposed to it, most of his poetry seems still odder. Nevertheless, at 37, Auden is generally rated the most influential poet of his generation. For the Time Being, his twelfth book, is likely to be the year's most discussed book of poetry...
Paul Bunyan, gigantic, legendary Northwest logger, might well make music surge in some great U.S. symphony. Last week he was the hero-although he never appeared onstage-of an anemic operetta put up by two British expatriates. The librettist of the operetta, corn-shocky Poet Wystan Hugh Auden, excused himself for muscling in on U.S. mythology by declaring that Bunyan is a universal figure...
Obsessed since childhood with a sense of exile, she called on literary exiles, among them British Poet Wystan Hugh Auden and his wife Erika Mann. Soon she was invited to join a freakish household of esthetes in Brooklyn Heights. There, sickly, shy and elflike, she presided over a dinner table whose steady boarders were Auden, Anglo-Irish Poet Louis MacNeice (now back in England for military service), British Composer Benjamin Britten, Wisconsin-raised George Davis (literary editor of Harper's Bazaar). The old brownstone became a shabby Mecca for their friends. Russian Painter Pavel Tchelitchew decorated its walls, symphonies...