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Auden

[ awd-n ]

noun

  1. W(ys·tan) H(ugh) [wis, -t, uh, n], 1907–73, English poet in the U.S.


Auden

/ ˈɔːdən /

noun

  1. AudenW(ystan) H(ugh)19071973MUSEnglishWRITING: poetTHEATRE: dramatistWRITING: criticMUSIC: librettist W ( ystan ) H ( ugh ). 1907–73, US poet, dramatist, critic, and librettist, born in Britain; noted for his lyric and satirical poems and for plays written in collaboration with Christopher Isherwood


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The poet Auden said, “Thousands have lived without love; none without water.”

In Oxford, Lear will relate stories from the lives of figures like W.H. Auden, Lewis Carroll, and T.E. Lawrence.

There are no signs yet, to paraphrase W.H. Auden, that the dreadful martyrdom of JFK has run its course.

Proust liked to have two cups with milk, but Auden, quite to the contrary, only took one.

A culture,” the poet W.H. Auden observed, “is no better than its woods.

Life, said Auden Spoon-bill, is pretty fine, no matter how it is arranged.

Then along the bank from the direction of the date palms came Auden Spoon-bill, he who had gone to Delilahs heart.

Auden Spoon-bill went along parallel to the shore of the river until he saw Delilah standing in the pale green water.

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