Auden Wystan Hugh
Auden Wystan Hugh (1907-73). British poet, considered the leader of the young left-wing writers of the 1930s. His first volume, Poems (1930), was an immediate success. He served as an ambulance driver in the Spanish Civil War before emigrating to the US in 1939. He later became a committed Anglican and revised many of his earlier political poems. As well as poetry, Auden’s works include criticism, translations, and a libretto for Stravinsky’s opera The Rake’s Progress (1951). In 1956 he became professor of poetry at Oxford.
