The Island: War and Belonging in Auden’s England; By Nicholas Jenkins; Harvard University Press; 656 pp., $35.00 Perhaps only someone susceptible to fascism could see its full menace. Still, Auden’s ...

He was hardly the only famous poet of his blazing, far-flung generation. But he was the one most dogged by disputes over the nature and authenticity of his talent. Even among admirers, there was ample ...

College Students Are Still Finding New Ways to Marginalize Jews on Campus A work by W. H. Auden tells a tale that’s historical, metaphysical, political, and spiritual — one that’s singularly focused ...

The republication of W.H. Auden’s poetry collection, The Shield of Achilles, reminds us that Auden belongs in the hall of great Christian writers, not with the Left. As with Auden’s other collections, ...

In the hours after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, as the smoke of destruction still lingered in the very air we breathed, I was reminded of W. H. Auden's poem "September 1, 1939" and read from it on ...

THIS volume is a selection, rather than a complete collection, of the poetry Mr. Auden has so far written. He has omitted many poems, some of which were valuable chiefly as technical experiments, and ...

Editor’s Note: Jay Parini, a poet and novelist, teaches at Middlebury College. His most recent books are “The Way of Jesus” and “The Damascus Road,” a novel about St. Paul. The views expressed in this ...

As W.H. Auden wrote of himself, “So obsessive a ritualist/a pleasant surprise/makes him cross.” He enjoyed his very cold, very dry martini at 6 p.m. precisely — not 5 p.m., as stated by Julia M. Klein ...

It's one of those poems people reach for in times when it feels like the sky is falling. It's also generally regarded as one of the great poems of the 20th century. "September 1, 1939," as its title ...

The Shield of Achilles By W.H. Auden, edited by Alan Jacobs; Princeton University Press; 136 pp., $22.95 After Auden, English speakers no longer had what they had for 200 years, from at least ...

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