Table of Contents
280 relations: A Certain World, A. S. T. Fisher, About the House, Academy of American Poets, Agape, Alan Ansen, Alan Myers (translator), Alexander Pope, Allen & Unwin, Anglicanism, Anglo-Catholicism, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Another Time (book), Anthony Hecht, Auden Group, Austin Clarke (poet), Ballad, Baroque, BBC History, BBC News, Beat Generation, Before Sunrise, Benjamin Britten, Bennington College, Beorhtwulf of Mercia, Berlin, Birmingham, Bonnie Costello, Boston Review, British Americans, British Library, British passport, British undergraduate degree classification, Brooklyn Heights, Bucolics (Auden), Caliban, Cambridge University Press, Carson McCullers, Catholic Church, Catholic Worker, Cecil Day-Lewis, Charles Madge, Charles Osborne (music writer), Charles Williams (British writer), Chester Kallman, Christ Church, Oxford, Christopher Isherwood, Church of England, City Without Walls, Clergy, ... Expand index (230 more) »
- British literary theorists
- British modernist poets
- English LGBT dramatists and playwrights
- LGBT Anglicans
- Oxford Professors of Poetry
- Translators of the Poetic Edda
- Writers from York
A Certain World
A Certain World: A Commonplace Book, by W. H. Auden, is an anthology of passages and quotations from other authors, selected by Auden, arranged alphabetically by subject.
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A. S. T. Fisher
Arthur Stanley Theodore Fisher (1906–1989) was a mid-20th-century Church of England priest and writer. W. H. Auden and a. S. T. Fisher are 20th-century English poets.
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About the House
About the House is a book of poems by W. H. Auden, published in 1965 by Random House (first published in England by Faber & Faber in 1966).
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Academy of American Poets
The Academy of American Poets is a national, member-supported organization that promotes poets and the art of poetry.
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Agape
() is "the highest form of love, charity" and "the love of God for and of for God".
Alan Ansen
Alan Ansen (January 23, 1922 – November 12, 2006) was an American poet, playwright, and associate of Beat Generation writers. W. H. Auden and Alan Ansen are American LGBT poets.
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Alan Myers (translator)
Alan Myers (18 August 1933 – 8 August 2010) was a noted translator, most notably of works by Russian authors.
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Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 O.S. – 30 May 1744) was an English poet, translator, and satirist of the Enlightenment era who is considered one of the most prominent English poets of the early 18th century. W. H. Auden and Alexander Pope are British male essayists and English essayists.
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Allen & Unwin
George Allen & Unwin was a British publishing company formed in 1911 when Sir Stanley Unwin purchased a controlling interest in George Allen & Co.
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Anglicanism
Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe.
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Anglo-Catholicism
Anglo-Catholicism comprises beliefs and practices that emphasize the Catholic heritage and identity of the Church of England and various churches within the Anglican Communion.
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
Ann Arbor is a college town and the county seat of Washtenaw County, Michigan, United States.
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Another Time (book)
Another Time is a book of poems by W. H. Auden, published in 1940.
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Anthony Hecht
Anthony Evan Hecht (January 16, 1923 – October 20, 2004) was an American poet. W. H. Auden and Anthony Hecht are Bollingen Prize recipients, Formalist poets, members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winners.
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Auden Group
The Auden Group, also called Auden Generation and sometimes simply the Thirties poets, was a group of British and Irish writers active in the 1930s that included W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Cecil Day-Lewis, Stephen Spender, Christopher Isherwood and sometimes Edward Upward and Rex Warner.
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Austin Clarke (poet)
Austin Clarke (Irish: Aibhistín Ó Cléirigh) (9 May 1896 – 19 March 1974), born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats.
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Ballad
A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music.
Baroque
The Baroque is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from the early 17th century until the 1750s.
BBC History
BBC History is a British magazine devoted to both British and world history, and aimed at readers of all levels of knowledge and interest.
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BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.
Beat Generation
The Beat Generation was a literary subculture movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-World War II era.
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Before Sunrise
Before Sunrise is a 1995 romantic drama film directed by Richard Linklater and co-written by Linklater and Kim Krizan.
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Benjamin Britten
Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976, aged 63) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. W. H. Auden and Benjamin Britten are people educated at Gresham's School.
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Bennington College
Bennington College is a private liberal arts college in Bennington, Vermont, United States.
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Beorhtwulf of Mercia
Beorhtwulf (meaning "bright wolf"; also spelled Berhtwulf; died 852) was King of Mercia, a kingdom of Anglo-Saxon England, from 839 or 840 to 852.
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Berlin
Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.
Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England.
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Bonnie Costello
Bonnie Costello (born 1950) is an American literary scholar, currently the William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor of English at Boston University.
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Boston Review
Boston Review is an American quarterly political and literary magazine.
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British Americans
British Americans usually refers to Americans whose ancestral origin originates wholly or partly in the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland and also the Isle of Man, the Channel Islands, and Gibraltar).
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British Library
The British Library is a research library in London that is the national library of the United Kingdom.
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British passport
The British passport is a travel document issued by the United Kingdom or other British dependencies and territories to individuals holding any form of British nationality.
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British undergraduate degree classification
The British undergraduate degree classification system is a grading structure used for undergraduate degrees or bachelor's degrees and integrated master's degrees in the United Kingdom.
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Brooklyn Heights
Brooklyn Heights is a residential neighborhood within the New York City borough of Brooklyn.
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Bucolics (Auden)
Bucolics is a sequence of poems by W. H. Auden written in 1952 and 1953.
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Caliban
Caliban, son of the witch Sycorax, is an important character in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest.
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.
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Carson McCullers
Carson McCullers (February 19, 1917 – September 29, 1967) was an American novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist, and poet. W. H. Auden and Carson McCullers are American LGBT dramatists and playwrights, members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and people from Brooklyn Heights.
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Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
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Catholic Worker
The Catholic Worker is a newspaper based in New York City.
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Cecil Day-Lewis
Cecil Day-Lewis (or Day Lewis; 27 April 1904 – 22 May 1972), often written as C. Day-Lewis, was an Anglo-Irish poet and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1968 until his death in 1972. W. H. Auden and Cecil Day-Lewis are 20th-century English poets, Formalist poets and Oxford Professors of Poetry.
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Charles Madge
Charles Henry Madge (10 October 1912 – 17 January 1996) was an English poet, journalist and sociologist, now most remembered as a founder of Mass-Observation. W. H. Auden and Charles Madge are 20th-century English poets.
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Charles Osborne (music writer)
Charles Thomas Osborne (24 November 1927 – 23 September 2017) was an Australian journalist, theatre and opera critic, poet and novelist.
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Charles Williams (British writer)
Charles Walter Stansby Williams (20 September 1886 – 15 May 1945) was an English poet, novelist, playwright, theologian and literary critic. W. H. Auden and Charles Williams (British writer) are 20th-century English poets.
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Chester Kallman
Chester Simon Kallman (January 7, 1921 – January 18, 1975) was an American poet, librettist, and translator, best known for collaborating with W. H. Auden on opera librettos for Igor Stravinsky and other composers. W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman are American LGBT poets, American gay writers, American opera librettists and gay poets.
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Christ Church, Oxford
Christ Church (Ædes Christi, the temple or house, ædes, of Christ, and thus sometimes known as "The House") is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England.
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Christopher Isherwood
Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood (26 August 1904 – 4 January 1986) was an Anglo-American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist. W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood are American gay writers, English gay writers and members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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Church of England
The Church of England (C of E) is the established Christian church in England and the Crown Dependencies.
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City Without Walls
City Without Walls and other poems is a book by W. H. Auden, published in 1969.
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Clergy
Clergy are formal leaders within established religions.
Colwall
Colwall is a civil parish in Herefordshire, England, situated on the border with Worcestershire, nestling on the western side of the Malvern Hills at the heart of the AONB.
DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program
The DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program (German: Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD) is a residential program for artists of all countries and ages run by the German Academic Exchange Service (German: ‘Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst', DAAD) in Berlin.
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Dag Hammarskjöld
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld (29 July 1905 – 18 September 1961) was a Swedish economist and diplomat who served as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in September 1961.
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Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri (– September 14, 1321), most likely baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and widely known and often referred to in English mononymously as Dante, was an Italian poet, writer, and philosopher.
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David Luke
David Luke (1921–2005) was a scholar of German literature at Christ Church, Oxford. W. H. Auden and David Luke are translators of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (4 February 1906 – 9 April 1945) was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian and anti-Nazi dissident who was a key founding member of the Confessing Church.
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Doggerel
Doggerel, or doggrel, is poetry that is irregular in rhythm and in rhyme, often deliberately for burlesque or comic effect.
Dorothy Day
Dorothy Day (November 8, 1897 – November 29, 1980) was an American journalist, social activist and anarchist who, after a bohemian youth, became a Catholic without abandoning her social activism. W. H. Auden and Dorothy Day are people from Brooklyn Heights.
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E. M. Forster
Edward Morgan Forster (1 January 1879 – 7 June 1970) was an English author. W. H. Auden and E. M. Forster are English essayists, English gay writers and English opera librettists.
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E. R. Dodds
Eric Robertson Dodds (26 July 1893 – 8 April 1979) was an Irish classical scholar.
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Early music
Early music generally comprises Medieval music (500–1400) and Renaissance music (1400–1600), but can also include Baroque music (1600–1750).
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East Village, Manhattan
The East Village is a neighborhood on the East Side of Lower Manhattan in New York City, United States.
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Eclogue
An eclogue is a poem in a classical style on a pastoral subject.
Edmund Wilson
Edmund Wilson Jr. (May 8, 1895 – June 12, 1972) was an American writer, literary critic and journalist. W. H. Auden and Edmund Wilson are American literary critics.
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Edward Mendelson
Edward Mendelson (born March 15, 1946) is a professor of English and Comparative Literature and the Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University.
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Elegy for Young Lovers
Elegy for Young Lovers (German) is an opera in three acts by Hans Werner Henze to an English libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman.
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Elizabeth Mayer
Elizabeth Wolff Mayer (1884 – 14 March 1970) was a German-born American translator and editor, closely associated with W. H. Auden, Benjamin Britten, Peter Pears, and other writers and musicians. W. H. Auden and Elizabeth Mayer are translators of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
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Encyclopædia Britannica
The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.
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Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is an American digital-only entertainment magazine based in New York City, published by Dotdash Meredith, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books, and popular culture.
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Episcopal Church (United States)
The Episcopal Church, officially the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America (PECUSA), is a member church of the worldwide Anglican Communion based in the United States with additional dioceses elsewhere.
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Epistle to a Godson
Epistle to a Godson and other poems is a book of poems by W. H. Auden, published in 1972.
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Erika Mann
Erika Julia Hedwig Mann (9 November 1905 – 27 August 1969) was a German actress and writer, daughter of the novelist Thomas Mann.
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Euripides
Euripides was a tragedian of classical Athens.
Existentialism
Existentialism is a family of views and forms of philosophical inquiry that explores the issue of human existence.
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F. R. Leavis
Frank Raymond "F. W. H. Auden and F. R. Leavis are English literary critics.
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Faber & Faber
Faber and Faber Limited, commonly known as Faber & Faber or simply Faber, is an independent publishing house in London.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG) is an American book publishing company, founded in 1946 by Roger Williams Straus Jr. and John C. Farrar.
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February House
The February House was an artists' commune from 1940 to 1941 in the neighborhood of Brooklyn Heights, New York City.
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Feltrinelli Prize
The Feltrinelli Prize (from the Italian "Premio Feltrinelli", also known as "International Feltrinelli Prize" or "Antonio Feltrinelli Prize") is an award for achievement in the arts, music, literature, history, philosophy, medicine, and physical and mathematical sciences.
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For the Time Being
For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio, is a long poem by W. H. Auden, written in 1941 and 1942, and first published in 1944.
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Ford Foundation
The Ford Foundation is an American private foundation with the stated goal of advancing human welfare.
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Forewords and Afterwords
Forewords and Afterwords is a 1973 nonfiction book by W. H. Auden.
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Four Weddings and a Funeral
Four Weddings and a Funeral is a 1994 British romantic comedy film directed by Mike Newell.
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Francis Scarfe
Francis Harold Scarfe (1911–1986) was an English poet, critic and novelist, who became an academic, translator and Director of the British Institute in Paris. W. H. Auden and Francis Scarfe are 20th-century English poets and English literary critics.
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Friedrich Hölderlin
Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin (20 March 1770 – 7 June 1843) was a German poet and philosopher.
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Funeral Blues
"Funeral Blues", or "Stop all the clocks", is a poem by W. H. Auden which first appeared in the 1936 play The Ascent of F6.
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Gale (publisher)
Gale is a global provider of research and digital learning resources.
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Geoffrey Grigson
Geoffrey Edward Harvey Grigson (2 March 1905 – 25 November 1985) was a British poet, writer, editor, critic, exhibition curator, anthologist and naturalist. W. H. Auden and Geoffrey Grigson are 20th-century English poets, British anthologists, English essayists and English literary critics.
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George Augustus Auden
George Augustus Auden (27 August 1872 – 3 May 1957) was an English physician, professor of public health, school medical officer, and writer on archaeological subjects.
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Gilbert and Sullivan
Gilbert and Sullivan refers to the Victorian-era theatrical partnership of the dramatist W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) and the composer Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900) and to the works they jointly created.
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Good Friday
Good Friday is a Christian holy day observing the crucifixion of Jesus and his death at Calvary.
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GPO Film Unit
The GPO Film Unit was a subdivision of the UK General Post Office.
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Graham Greene
Henry Graham Greene (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991) was an English writer and journalist regarded by many as one of the leading novelists of the 20th century. W. H. Auden and Graham Greene are 20th-century English dramatists and playwrights and English essayists.
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Gresham's School
Gresham's School is a public school (English fee-charging boarding and day school) in Holt, Norfolk, England, one of the top thirty International Baccalaureate schools in England. W. H. Auden and Gresham's School are people educated at Gresham's School.
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Group Theatre (London)
The Group Theatre (London) was an experimental theatre company founded in 1932 by Rupert Doone and Robert Medley.
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Guggenheim Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim.
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Haiku
is a type of short form poetry that originated in Japan, and can be traced back from the influence of traditional Chinese poetry.
Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt (born Johanna Arendt; 14 October 1906 – 4 December 1975) was a German-American historian and philosopher. W. H. Auden and Hannah Arendt are 20th-century American essayists and members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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Hans Werner Henze
Hans Werner Henze (1 July 1926 – 27 October 2012) was a German composer.
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Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom (July 11, 1930 – October 14, 2019) was an American literary critic and the Sterling Professor of humanities at Yale University. W. H. Auden and Harold Bloom are American literary critics and members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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Harvard University Press
Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing.
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Hedli Anderson
Antoinette Millicent Hedley Anderson (1907 – 1990) was an English singer and actor.
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Heinemann (publisher)
William Heinemann Ltd., with the imprint Heinemann, was a London-based publisher founded in 1890 by William Heinemann.
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Heinrich Mann
Luiz Heinrich Mann (March 27, 1871 – March 11, 1950), best known as simply Heinrich Mann, was a German writer known for his socio-political novels.
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Helensburgh
Helensburgh (Baile Eilidh) is a coastal town on the north side of the Firth of Clyde in Scotland, situated at the mouth of the Gareloch.
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High church
The term high church refers to beliefs and practices of Christian ecclesiology, liturgy, and theology that emphasize "ritual, priestly authority, sacraments".
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Holt, Norfolk
Holt is a market town, civil parish and electoral ward in the English county of Norfolk.
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Homage to Clio
Homage to Clio is a book of poems by W. H. Auden, published in 1960.
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Horace
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC),Suetonius,. commonly known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words."Quintilian 10.1.96.
Horae Canonicae
Horae Canonicae is a series of poems by W. H. Auden written between 1949 and 1955.
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Horninglow
Horninglow is a suburb of Burton upon Trent, in the East Staffordshire district, in the county of Staffordshire, England.
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Hugh MacDiarmid
Christopher Murray Grieve (11 August 1892 – 9 September 1978), best known by his pen name Hugh MacDiarmid, was a Scottish poet, journalist, essayist and political figure. W. H. Auden and Hugh MacDiarmid are British modernist poets.
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Hugh Wright (schoolmaster)
Hugh Raymond Wright (born 24 August 1938) is an English schoolmaster and educationalist who was chairman of the Headmasters' Conference for 1995–1996.
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Humphrey Carpenter
Humphrey William Bouverie Carpenter (29 April 1946 – 4 January 2005) was an English biographer, writer, and radio broadcaster.
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Hymn to St Cecilia
Hymn to St Cecilia, Op. 27 is a choral piece by Benjamin Britten (1913–1976), a setting of a poem by W. H. Auden written between 1940 and 1942.
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Icelanders
Icelanders (Íslendingar) are an ethnic group and nation who are native to the island country of Iceland.
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Igor Stravinsky
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (– 6 April 1971) was a Russian composer and conductor with French citizenship (from 1934) and American citizenship (from 1945).
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In Praise of Limestone
"In Praise of Limestone" is a poem written by W. H. Auden in Italy in May 1948.
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International Institute of Social History
The International Institute of Social History (IISH/IISG) is one of the largest archives of labor and social history in the world.
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Ischia
Ischia is a volcanic island in the Tyrrhenian Sea.
J. R. R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer and philologist. W. H. Auden and J. R. R. Tolkien are 20th-century English poets and Formalist poets.
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James Merrill
James Ingram Merrill (March 3, 1926 – February 6, 1995) was an American poet. W. H. Auden and James Merrill are American LGBT poets, American gay writers, Bollingen Prize recipients, Formalist poets, gay poets, national Book Award winners and Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winners.
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James Stern (writer)
James Stern (26 December 1904 – 22 November 1993) was an Anglo-Irish writer of short stories and non-fiction.
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John Ashbery
John Lawrence Ashbery (July 28, 1927 – September 3, 2017) was an American poet and art critic. W. H. Auden and John Ashbery are American LGBT poets, American gay writers, Bollingen Prize recipients, gay academics, gay poets, members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, national Book Award winners and Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winners.
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John Betjeman
Sir John Betjeman, (28 August 190619 May 1984) was an English poet, writer, and broadcaster. W. H. Auden and John Betjeman are 20th-century English poets, Anglican poets and English LGBT poets.
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John Bicknell Auden
John Bicknell Auden (14 December 1903 – 21 January 1991) was an English geologist and explorer, older brother of the poet W. H. Auden, who worked for many years in India with the Geological Survey of India and later with the Food and Agriculture Organization.
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John Fuller (poet)
John Fuller FRSL (born 1 January 1937) is an English poet and author, and Fellow Emeritus at Magdalen College, Oxford.
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John Grierson
John Grierson (26 April 1898 – 19 February 1972) was a pioneering Scottish documentary maker, often considered the father of British and Canadian documentary film.
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John Haffenden
John Haffenden (born 19 August 1945) is emeritus professor of English literature at the University of Sheffield.
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John Hampson (novelist)
John Frederick Norman Hampson Simpson (26 March 1901 – 26 December 1955) was an English novelist writing as John Hampson.
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John Masefield
John Edward Masefield (1 June 1878 – 12 May 1967) was an English poet and writer, and Poet Laureate from 1930 until his death in 1967. W. H. Auden and John Masefield are 20th-century English poets.
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John Sparrow (academic)
John Hanbury Angus Sparrow OBE (13 November 1906 – 24 January 1992) was an English academic, barrister, book-collector, and Warden of All Souls College, Oxford, from 1952 to 1977.
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Joseph Brodsky
Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (Иосиф Александрович Бродский; 24 May 1940 – 28 January 1996) was a Russian and American poet and essayist. W. H. Auden and Joseph Brodsky are 20th-century American essayists, American male essayists, members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, people from Brooklyn Heights and struga Poetry Evenings Golden Wreath laureates.
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Joseph Warren Beach
Joseph Warren Beach (January 14, 1880 – August 13, 1957) was an American poet, novelist, critic, educator and literary scholar. W. H. Auden and Joseph Warren Beach are American literary critics.
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Journey to a War
Journey to a War is a travel book in prose and verse by W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, published in 1939.
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Kate Mangan
Kate Mangan (Foster; also subsequently known as Kate Kurzke) was a British artist, actress and journalist.
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Katherine Bucknell
Katherine Bucknell (born 1957 in Saigon) is an American scholar and novelist who resides in England.
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Kirchstetten
Kirchstetten is a town in district of Sankt Pölten-Land in the Austrian state of Lower Austria.
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Letters from Iceland
Letters from Iceland is a travel book in prose and verse by W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice, published in 1937.
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Limerick (poetry)
A limerick is a form of verse that appeared in England in the early years of the 18th century.
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Lincoln Kirstein
Lincoln Edward Kirstein (May 4, 1907 – January 5, 1996) was an American writer, impresario, art connoisseur, philanthropist, and cultural figure in New York City, noted especially as co-founder of the New York City Ballet. W. H. Auden and Lincoln Kirstein are American LGBT poets.
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Literary estate
The literary estate of a deceased author consists mainly of the copyright and other intellectual property rights of published works, including film, translation rights, original manuscripts of published work, unpublished or partially completed work, and papers of intrinsic literary interest such as correspondence or personal diaries and records.
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Lomond School
Lomond School is a private, co-educational, day and boarding school in Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute, Scotland.
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Long poem
The long poem is a literary genre including all poetry of considerable length.
Louis MacNeice
Frederick Louis MacNeice (12 September 1907 – 3 September 1963) was an Irish poet, playwright and producer for the BBC. W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice are Formalist poets and translators of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
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Love's Labour's Lost
Love's Labour's Lost is one of William Shakespeare's early comedies, believed to have been written in the mid-1590s for a performance at the Inns of Court before Queen Elizabeth I. It follows the King of Navarre and his three companions as they attempt to swear off the company of women for three years in order to focus on study and fasting.
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Love's Labour's Lost (opera)
Love's Labour's Lost is an opera by Nicolas Nabokov, written by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, based on Shakespeare's play of the same name.
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Malvern Hills
The Malvern Hills are in the English counties of Worcestershire, Herefordshire and a small area of northern Gloucestershire, dominating the surrounding countryside and the towns and villages of the district of Malvern.
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Man of La Mancha
Man of La Mancha is a 1965 musical with a book by Dale Wasserman, music by Mitch Leigh, and lyrics by Joe Darion.
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Manhattan
Manhattan is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City.
Marianne Moore
Marianne Craig Moore (November 15, 1887 – February 5, 1972) was an American modernist poet, critic, translator, and editor. W. H. Auden and Marianne Moore are Bollingen Prize recipients, national Book Award winners and Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winners.
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Marriage of convenience
A marriage of convenience is a marriage contracted for reasons other than that of love and commitment.
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Master of Arts (Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin)
In the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin, Bachelors of Arts are promoted to the degree of Master of Arts or Master in Arts (MA) on application after six or seven years as members of the university, including years as an undergraduate.
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Maxine Kumin
Maxine Kumin (June 6, 1925 – February 6, 2014) was an American poet and author. W. H. Auden and Maxine Kumin are Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winners.
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Media (communication)
In communication, media are the outlets or tools used to store and deliver content; semantic information or subject matter of which the media contains.
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Methuen Publishing
Methuen Publishing Ltd (also known as Methuen Books) is an English publishing house.
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Michael Yates (television designer)
Michael Yates (20 July 1919 – 28 November 2001) was a British theatre, opera, and television designer.
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Musée des Beaux Arts (poem)
"Musée des Beaux Arts" (French for "Museum of Fine Arts") is a 23-line poem written by W. H. Auden in December 1938 while he was staying in Brussels, Belgium, with Christopher Isherwood.
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Naomi Mitchison
Naomi Mary Margaret Mitchison, Baroness Mitchison (1 November 1897 – 11 January 1999) was a Scottish novelist and poet.
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National Book Award for Poetry
The National Book Award for Poetry is one of five annual National Book Awards, which are given by the National Book Foundation to recognize outstanding literary work by US citizens.
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National Film Board of Canada
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB; Office national du film du Canada (ONF)) is Canada's public film and digital media producer and distributor.
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Naturalization
Naturalization (or naturalisation) is the legal act or process by which a non-national of a country acquires the nationality of that country after birth.
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Nevill Coghill
Nevill Henry Kendal Aylmer Coghill (19 April 1899 – 6 November 1980) was an Anglo-Irish literary scholar, known especially for his modern-English version of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. W. H. Auden and Nevill Coghill are gay academics.
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New York Pro Musica
New York Pro Musica was a vocal and instrumental ensemble based in New York City, which specialized in Medieval and Renaissance music.
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Nicolas Nabokov
Nicolas Nabokov (Николай Дмитриевич Набоков; – 6 April 1978) was a Russian-born composer, writer, and cultural figure.
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Night Mail
Night Mail is a 1936 British documentary film directed and produced by Harry Watt and Basil Wright, and produced by the General Post Office (GPO) Film Unit.
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Noah Greenberg
Noah Greenberg (April 9, 1919 – January 9, 1966) was an American choral conductor.
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Nobel Prize in Literature
The Nobel Prize in Literature (here meaning for literature; Nobelpriset i litteratur) is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, "in the field of literature, produced the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction" (original den som inom litteraturen har producerat det utmärktaste i idealisk riktning).
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Nones (Auden)
Nones is a book of poems by W. H. Auden published in 1951 by Faber & Faber.
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Odes (Horace)
The Odes (Carmina) are a collection in four books of Latin lyric poems by Horace.
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Old Norse
Old Norse, Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian is a stage of development of North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages.
On the Frontier
On the Frontier: A Melodrama in Three Acts, by W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, was the third and last play in the Auden–Isherwood collaboration, first published in 1938.
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On This Island
On This Island is a book of poems by W. H. Auden, first published under the title Look, Stranger! in the UK in 1936, then published under Auden's preferred title, On this Island, in the US in 1937.
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Our Hunting Fathers
Our Hunting Fathers, Op. 8, is an orchestral song cycle by Benjamin Britten, first performed in 1936.
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Oxford
Oxford is a city and non-metropolitan district in Oxfordshire, England, of which it is the county town.
Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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Pablo Casals
Pau Casals i Defilló (Catalan:; 29 December 187622 October 1973), known in English by his Spanish name Pablo Casals,, The New York Times, 1911-04-09, retrieved 1 August 2009 was a Spanish and Puerto Rican cellist, composer, and conductor.
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Paid on Both Sides
Paid on Both Sides: A Charade was the first dramatic work written by W. H. Auden.
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Palais Pálffy
Palais Pálffy (Pálffy Palace) is a palace located on Josefsplatz in the Innere Stadt (inner city) district of Vienna, Austria.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Palgrave Macmillan is a British academic and trade publishing company headquartered in the London Borough of Camden.
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Paul Bunyan (operetta)
Paul Bunyan, Op 17, is an operetta in two acts and a prologue composed by Benjamin Britten to a libretto by W. H. Auden, designed for performance by semi-professional groups.
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Pennines
The Pennines, also known as the Pennine Chain or Pennine Hills, are a range of uplands mainly located in Northern England.
Peter Heyworth
Peter Lawrence Frederick Heyworth (3 June 1921 – 2 October 1991) was an American-born British music critic and biographer.
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Philip Larkin
Philip Arthur Larkin (9 August 1922 – 2 December 1985) was an English poet, novelist, and librarian. W. H. Auden and Philip Larkin are 20th-century English poets and Formalist poets.
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Play of Daniel
The Play of Daniel, or Ludus Danielis, is either of two medieval Latin liturgical dramas based on the biblical Book of Daniel, one of which is accompanied by monophonic music.
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Poems (Auden)
Poems is the title of three separate collections of the early poetry of W. H. Auden.
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Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
The British Poet Laureate is an honorary position appointed by the monarch of the United Kingdom, currently on the advice of the prime minister.
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Poetic Edda
The Poetic Edda is the modern name for an untitled collection of Old Norse anonymous narrative poems in alliterative verse.
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Poetry
Poetry (from the Greek word poiesis, "making") is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, literal or surface-level meanings.
Poets' Corner
Poets' Corner is a section of the southern transept of Westminster Abbey in London, where many poets, playwrights, and writers are buried or commemorated.
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Preparatory school (United Kingdom)
A preparatory school (or, shortened: prep school) in the United Kingdom is a fee-charging private primary school that caters for children up to approximately the age of 13.
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Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press is an independent publisher with close connections to Princeton University.
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Professor of Poetry
The Professor of Poetry is an academic appointment at the University of Oxford. W. H. Auden and Professor of Poetry are Oxford Professors of Poetry.
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Psychoanalysis
PsychoanalysisFrom Greek: +. is a set of theories and therapeutic techniques"What is psychoanalysis? Of course, one is supposed to answer that it is many things — a theory, a research method, a therapy, a body of knowledge.
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Public school (United Kingdom)
In England and Wales, a public school is a type of fee-charging private school originally for older boys.
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Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes awarded annually for Letters, Drama, and Music. W. H. Auden and Pulitzer Prize for Poetry are Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winners.
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Rainbow Honor Walk
The Rainbow Honor Walk (RHW) is a walk of fame installation in San Francisco, California to honor notable lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) individuals from around the world "who left a lasting mark on society." Its bronze plaques honor LGBTQ individuals who "made significant contributions in their fields".
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Randall Jarrell
Randall Jarrell (May 6, 1914 – October 14, 1965) was an American poet, literary critic, children's author, essayist, and novelist. W. H. Auden and Randall Jarrell are American literary critics, American male essayists, Formalist poets, members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, national Book Award winners and translators of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
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Random House
Random House is an imprint and publishing group of Penguin Random House.
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Reinhold Niebuhr
Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr (June 21, 1892 – June 1, 1971) was an American Reformed theologian, ethicist, commentator on politics and public affairs, and professor at Union Theological Seminary for more than 30 years. W. H. Auden and Reinhold Niebuhr are members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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Repton
Repton is a village and civil parish in the South Derbyshire district of Derbyshire, England, located on the edge of the River Trent floodplain, about north of Swadlincote.
Repton School
Repton School is a 13–18 co-educational, private, boarding and day school in the public school tradition, in Repton, Derbyshire, England.
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Richard Davenport-Hines
Richard Peter Treadwell Davenport-Hines (born 21 June 1953 in London) is a British historian and literary biographer, and a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.
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Richard Hoggart
Herbert Richard Hoggart (24 September 1918 – 10 April 2014) was an English academic whose career covered the fields of sociology, English literature and cultural studies, with emphasis on British popular culture.
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Robert Burns
Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796), also known familiarly as Rabbie Burns, was a Scottish poet and lyricist.
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Robert Medley
Charles Robert Owen Medley CBE, RA, (19 December 1905 – 20 October 1994), also known as Robert Medley, was an English artist who painted in both abstract and figurative styles, and who also worked as theatre designer. W. H. Auden and Robert Medley are people educated at Gresham's School.
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Rookhope
Rookhope is a village in the civil parish of Stanhope, in County Durham, England.
Rowley Regis
Rowley Regis is a town and former municipal borough in Sandwell in the county of the West Midlands, England.
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Roy Campbell (poet)
Ignatius Royston Dunnachie Campbell, better known as Roy Campbell (2 October 1901 – 23 April 1957), was a South African poet, literary critic, literary translator, war poet and satirist. W. H. Auden and Roy Campbell (poet) are British people of the Spanish Civil War and Formalist poets.
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Rupert Doone
Rupert Doone (born Reginald Woodfield, 14 August 1903 – 4 March 1966) was a British dancer, choreographer, theatre director, and teacher in London.
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Saga
Sagas are prose stories and histories, composed in Iceland and to a lesser extent elsewhere in Scandinavia.
Samuel Hynes
Samuel Lynn Hynes (August 29, 1924 – October 9, 2019) was an American author.
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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (5 May 1813 – 11 November 1855) was a Danish theologian, philosopher, poet, social critic, and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher.
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Second Sino-Japanese War
The Second Sino-Japanese War was fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan between 1937 and 1945, following a period of war localized to Manchuria that started in 1931.
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Second Spanish Republic
The Spanish Republic, commonly known as the Second Spanish Republic, was the form of democratic government in Spain from 1931 to 1939.
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Secondary Worlds
Secondary Worlds is a book of four essays by W. H. Auden, first published in 1968.
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September 1, 1939
"September 1, 1939" is a poem by W. H. Auden written shortly after the German invasion of Poland, which would mark the start of World War II.
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Smith College
Smith College is a private liberal arts women's college in Northampton, Massachusetts.
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Solihull
Solihull is a market town and the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, in the West Midlands, England.
Spain (poem)
Spain is a poem by W. H. Auden written after his visit to the Spanish Civil War.
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Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War (Guerra Civil Española) was a military conflict fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalists.
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St Edmund's School, Hindhead
St Edmund's School is a coeducational nursery, pre-prep, preparatory and senior school located in Hindhead, Surrey, around 10.5 miles south-west from the town of Guildford.
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St Wystan's Church, Repton
St Wystan's Church is a Church of England parish church in Repton, Derbyshire, that is famous for its Anglo-Saxon crypt which is the burial place of two Mercian kings.
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Stephen Spender
Sir Stephen Harold Spender (28 February 1909 – 16 July 1995) was an English poet, novelist and essayist whose work concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle. W. H. Auden and Stephen Spender are 20th-century English non-fiction writers, 20th-century English poets, British people of the Spanish Civil War, English LGBT poets, English essayists, Formalist poets and people educated at Gresham's School.
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Swarthmore College
Swarthmore College is a private liberal arts college in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.
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Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
Swarthmore is a borough in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Syllabic verse
Syllabic verse is a poetic form having a fixed or constrained number of syllables per line, while stress, quantity, or tone play a distinctly secondary role—or no role at all—in the verse structure.
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T. S. Eliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 September 18884 January 1965) was a poet, essayist and playwright. W. H. Auden and T. S. Eliot are 20th-century American essayists, American literary critics, American male dramatists and playwrights, American male essayists, Anglican poets, British anthologists, British male essayists, British modernist poets and modernist theatre.
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Tanka
is a genre of classical Japanese poetry and one of the major genres of Japanese literature.
Thank You, Fog
Thank You, Fog: Last Poems by W. H. Auden is a posthumous book of poems by W. H. Auden, published in 1974.
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The Age of Anxiety
The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue (1947; first UK edition, 1948) is a long poem in six parts by W. H. Auden, written mostly in a modern version of Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse.
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The Ascent of F6
The Ascent of F6: A Tragedy in Two Acts, by W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, was the second and most successful play in the Auden–Isherwood collaboration, first published in 1936.
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The Bacchae
The Bacchae (Βάκχαι, Bakkhai; also known as The Bacchantes) is an ancient Greek tragedy, written by the Athenian playwright Euripides during his final years in Macedonia, at the court of Archelaus I of Macedon.
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The Bassarids
The Bassarids (in German) is an opera in one act and an intermezzo, with music by Hans Werner Henze to an English libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, after Euripides's The Bacchae.
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The Dance of Death (Auden play)
The Dance of Death is a one-act play in verse and prose by W. H. Auden, published in 1933.
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The Dog Beneath the Skin
The Dog Beneath the Skin, or Where is Francis? A Play in Three Acts, by W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, was the first Auden–Isherwood collaboration and an important contribution to English poetic drama in the 1930s.
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The Double Man (book)
The Double Man is a book of poems by W. H. Auden, published in 1941.
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The Downs Malvern
The Downs Malvern is a private prep school in the United Kingdom, founded in 1900.
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The Dyer's Hand
The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays is a collection of essays and lectures by W. H. Auden, published in 1962 in the US by Random House and in the UK the following year by Faber & Faber.
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The Enchafèd Flood
The Enchafèd Flood: or, The Romantic Iconography of the Sea is a book of three lectures by W. H. Auden, first published in 1950.
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The National Archives (United Kingdom)
The National Archives (TNA; Yr Archifau Cenedlaethol) is a non-ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom.
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The New School
The New School is a private research university in New York City.
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The New York Review of Books
The New York Review of Books (or NYREV or NYRB) is a semi-monthly magazine with articles on literature, culture, economics, science and current affairs.
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The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.
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The Orators
The Orators: An English Study is a long poem in prose and verse written by W. H. Auden, first published in 1932.
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The Rake's Progress
The Rake's Progress is an English-language opera from 1951 in three acts and an epilogue by Igor Stravinsky.
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The Sea and the Mirror
"The Sea and the Mirror: A Commentary on Shakespeare's The Tempest" is a long poem by W. H. Auden, written 1942–44, and first published in 1944.
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The Shield of Achilles
The Shield of Achilles is a poem by W. H. Auden first published in 1952, and the title work of a collection of poems by Auden, published in 1955.
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The Taming of the Shrew
The Taming of the Shrew is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1592.
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The Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.
The Unknown Citizen
"The Unknown Citizen" is a poem written by W. H. Auden in 1939, shortly after he moved from England to the United States.
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Therese Giehse
Therese Giehse (6 March 1898 – 3 March 1975), born Therese Gift, was a German actress.
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Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet.
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Thomas Mann
Paul Thomas Mann (6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. W. H. Auden and Thomas Mann are members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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Tone (literature)
In literature, the tone of a literary work expresses the writer's attitude toward or feelings about the subject matter and audience.
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U Thant
Thant (22 January 1909 – 25 November 1974), known honorifically as U Thant, was a Burmese diplomat and the third secretary-general of the United Nations from 1961 to 1971, the first non-Scandinavian to hold the position.
United States Strategic Bombing Survey
The United States Strategic Bombing Survey (USSBS) was a written report created by a board of experts assembled to produce an impartial assessment of the effects of the Anglo-American strategic bombing of Nazi Germany during the European theatre of World War II.
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University of Michigan
The University of Michigan (U-M, UMich, or simply Michigan) is a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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University of Oxford
The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England.
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Ursula Niebuhr
Ursula Mary Niebuhr (August 3, 1907 – January 10, 1997) was an English American academic and theologian.
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Valerie Eliot
Esmé Valerie Eliot (née Fletcher; 17 August 19269 November 2012) was the second wife and later widow of the Nobel prize-winning poet T. S. Eliot.
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Vienna
Vienna (Wien; Austro-Bavarian) is the capital, most populous city, and one of nine federal states of Austria.
Vikings
Vikings were seafaring people originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway, and Sweden), who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded, and settled throughout parts of Europe.
Villanelle
A villanelle, also known as villanesque,Kastner 1903 p. 279 is a nineteen-line poetic form consisting of five tercets followed by a quatrain.
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Vintage Books
Vintage Books is a trade paperback publishing imprint of Penguin Random House originally established by Alfred A. Knopf in 1954.
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W. B. Yeats
William Butler Yeats (13 June 186528 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. W. H. Auden and w. B. Yeats are Anglican poets, Formalist poets and modernist theatre.
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W. H. Auden bibliography
This is a bibliography of books, plays, films, and libretti written, edited, or translated by the Anglo-American poet W. H. Auden (1907–1973).
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Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was an American modernist poet. W. H. Auden and Wallace Stevens are Bollingen Prize recipients, Formalist poets, members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, national Book Award winners and Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winners.
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd (established 1949), often shortened to W&N or Weidenfeld, is a British publisher of fiction and reference books.
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Westminster Abbey
Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is an Anglican church in the City of Westminster, London, England.
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Wigstan
Wigstan (died c. 840 AD), also known as Saint Wystan, was the son of Wigmund of Mercia and Ælfflæd, daughter of King Ceolwulf I of Mercia.
William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963) was an American poet and physician of Latin American descent closely associated with modernism and imagism. W. H. Auden and William Carlos Williams are Bollingen Prize recipients, national Book Award winners and Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winners.
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William Langland
William Langland (Willielmus de Langland) is the presumed author of a work of Middle English alliterative verse generally known as Piers Plowman, an allegory with a complex variety of religious themes.
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. W. H. Auden and William Shakespeare are English male dramatists and playwrights.
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William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth (7 April 177023 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798). W. H. Auden and William Wordsworth are Anglican poets.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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Yale University Press
Yale University Press is the university press of Yale University.
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York
York is a cathedral city in North Yorkshire, England, with Roman origins, sited at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss.
54 Bootham
54 Bootham is a historic building on Bootham, a street running north from the city centre of York, in England.
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8th Street and St. Mark's Place
8th Street is a street in the New York City borough of Manhattan that runs from Sixth Avenue to Third Avenue, and also from Avenue B to Avenue D; its addresses switch from West to East as it crosses Fifth Avenue.
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See also
British literary theorists
- Allardyce Nicoll
- Brian Vickers (literary scholar)
- Cambridge Ritualists
- David Aers
- David Hawkes (professor of English)
- David Punter
- Derek Attridge
- Edmund Cusick
- Francis Mulhern
- George Orwell
- H. G. Wells
- Harold Pinter
- J. G. Ballard
- J. P. Stern
- Kingsley Amis
- Mark Fisher
- Martin Amis
- Martin McQuillan
- Nick Zangwill
- Noreen Masud
- Peter Boxall (literary scholar)
- Philip Tew
- Raymond Williams
- Robert Eaglestone
- Sarah Colvin
- Seán Burke (author)
- Terry Eagleton
- Valentine Cunningham
- Virginia Woolf
- W. H. Auden
- William Empson
British modernist poets
- Allan MacDonald (poet)
- Basil Bunting
- David Gascoyne
- Hugh MacDiarmid
- Joseph Pearce
- Mario Petrucci
- Nicholas Moore
- Pete Morgan
- Roy Fisher
- Saunders Lewis
- T. S. Eliot
- W. H. Auden
English LGBT dramatists and playwrights
- Abigail Thorn
- Adam Lowe (writer)
- Alan Bennett
- Aleister Crowley
- Brigid Brophy
- Christabel Marshall
- Clive Barker
- David Cale
- Dominic Cooke
- Eliot Salt
- Eric Bentley
- Hanif Kureishi
- Jill Posener
- Joe Orton
- John Roman Baker
- Jonathan Harvey (playwright)
- Kae Tempest
- Katherine Manners
- Laurence Housman
- Neil Bartlett (playwright)
- Nesta Obermer
- Noël Coward
- Richard Thomas (musician)
- Robert Madge (actor)
- Shaun Duggan
- Stephen Beresford
- Stephen Fry
- Terence Davies
- Terence Rattigan
- Tess Berry-Hart
- W. H. Auden
LGBT Anglicans
- Adele Goodman Clark
- Ann Walker (landowner)
- Anne Lister
- Barnaby Miln
- Ben Bradshaw
- Charles J. O'Byrne
- Charlotte Clymer
- Chris Bryant
- Dale Martin (scholar)
- David Norris (politician)
- Deirdre McCloskey
- Edward Carpenter
- Florence King
- Freda Du Faur
- Gigi Chao
- James Molyneaux, Baron Molyneaux of Killead
- Jay Hulme
- Jayne Ozanne
- Jim McGreevey
- John S. Arrowood
- Katherine Magdalene Rose
- Louie Crew
- Matthew Shepard
- Michael Kirby (judge)
- Mpho Tutu van Furth
- Oscar Wilde
- Pete Buttigieg
- Peter Sherlock
- Prince George, Duke of Kent
- R. Clarke Cooper
- Sarah Kate Ellis
- Semler (musician)
- Simon Hughes
- Sophie Grace Chappell
- Susan Allen
- Tom Driberg
- Vicky Beeching
- Vida Dutton Scudder
- W. H. Auden
- Wes Streeting
- William Stringfellow
Oxford Professors of Poetry
- A. C. Bradley
- Adam Fox (poet)
- Alice Oswald
- Cecil Day-Lewis
- Christopher Ricks
- Edmund Blunden
- Edward Copleston
- Ernest de Sélincourt
- Francis Hastings Doyle
- Francis Turner Palgrave
- Geoffrey Hill
- George Stuart Gordon
- H. W. Garrod
- Henry Hart Milman
- Herbert Warren
- James Fenton
- James Garbett
- James Hurdis
- John Campbell Shairp
- John Jones (academic)
- John Josias Conybeare
- John Keble
- John Randolph (bishop of London)
- John Wain
- John William Mackail
- Joseph Spence (author)
- Joseph Trapp
- Matthew Arnold
- Maurice Bowra
- Paul Muldoon
- Peter Levi
- Professor of Poetry
- Robert Graves
- Robert Holmes (priest)
- Robert Lowth
- Roy Fuller
- Seamus Heaney
- Seamus Perry
- Simon Armitage
- Thomas Legh Claughton
- Thomas Warton
- Thomas Warton the elder
- W. H. Auden
- W. P. Ker
- William Hawkins (priest)
- William John Courthope
Translators of the Poetic Edda
- Åke Ohlmarks
- Aale Tynni
- Amos Simon Cottle
- Andy Orchard
- Arnulf Krause
- Arvid August Afzelius
- Augusta Peaux
- Benjamin Thorpe
- Björn Collinder
- Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Jordan
- Elise Otté
- Erik Brate
- Finnur Magnússon
- Gustav Neckel
- Henry Adams Bellows (businessman)
- Ivar Mortensson-Egnund
- Jackson Crawford
- Jan de Vries (philologist)
- Jeramy Dodds
- Joachim Lelewel
- Karl Joseph Simrock
- Knut Ødegård
- Lars Lönnroth
- Lee M. Hollander
- Magnus Olsen
- Régis Boyer
- Robert Southey
- Ursula Dronke
- W. H. Auden
Writers from York
- Adelle Stripe
- Alan Bilton
- Alex Kershaw
- Andrew Martin (novelist)
- Arthur Munby
- Arthur Penty
- Bijan Omrani
- Charles Whiting
- Charlotte Richardson
- Denys Val Baker
- Edward Topham
- Emily Barr
- Faith Gray
- Fifi Colston
- Fiona Mozley
- George Abbot (author)
- Harriet Parr
- Howard Clewes
- J. E. Harold Terry
- John Strange Winter
- Kate Atkinson (writer)
- Marcas Mac an Tuairneir
- Mike Pannett
- Nathan Drake (essayist)
- Paul Burston
- Paul Williams (author)
- Peter John Allan
- Thomas Bedingfeld
- Thomas Gent
- W. H. Auden
References
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