Peter Ackroyd, novelist and literary biographer, perhaps most famous for his work on William Blake, has now turned his eye ...

Kelsey Grammer and his wife Kayte welcomed their third child, son Auden James Ellis Grammer, on Monday Seven is the lucky number for Kelsey Grammer! A rep for the former Frasier star, 61, confirms to ...

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 ...

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 ...

The lives of all great poets are a part of their poetry and cannot be separated from it. This would be as true of Homer, of whom we know nothing, as it is of Milton or Goethe, Byron or Mandelstam, ...

In 1955, W. H. Auden published The Shield of Achilles. The poetry collection includes a lengthy sequence of poems that I would rate high among the spiritual and devotional classics of the 20th century ...

Although his biographer Edward Mendelson never really admits it here, there were two WH Audens, not one. The pre-war Auden, about whom Mendelson wrote in his study Early Auden, was a world-class ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter A poet's anniversary jamboree - such as the tributes and talkfests that will greet the centenary of WH Auden's birth in York on 21 ...

When Auden died in 1973, forty years ago last week, it would have been hard to imagine how popular he would become in the ensuing decades. Morose and solitary, he described himself, in a poem of the ...

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