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W.H. Auden was born in Yorkshire, England and grew up in Birmingham, England
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W.H. Auden attended ST. Edmund's Preparatory school at the agee of 8.
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W.H. Auden attended Gresham's at Holt in Norfolk
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W.H. Auden was influenced greatly by T.S. Eliot in 1920.
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W.H. Auden's very first book of poems was printed privatley in 1928.
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In the 1930's W.H. Auden's poems reflected his travels as wellas his immesion in the work of Karl Marx and Signund Freud.
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W.H. Auden was a political poet in 1930. He also wrote about rocks, love, phychanalysis, the bacteria on human skin, war and cooking.
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W.H. Auden also wrote plays throughout the 1930's. He wrote more than 400 pieces and librettos.
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W.H. Auden moved to the U.S.A in 1939
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W.H. Auden's first book of poems made in America was called "Another Time" made in 1940.
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When W.H. Auden moved to U,S,A he resided in Brookland heights until 1946 when his citizenship was finalized.
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W.H. Auden won The National Book Award in poetry in 1956
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W.H. Auden won The National Medal For Literature in 1967.
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W.H. Auden died on September 29, 1973
