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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 100. Chapters: T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, William Butler Yeats, Dylan Thomas, William Empson, E. E. Cummings, Seamus Heaney, Robert Frost, Derek Walcott, Robert Penn Warren, Robert Conquest, Wallace Stevens, Richard Wilbur, Cecil Day-Lewis, Theodore Roethke, Stanley Kunitz, Hart Crane, Black Bart, Louis MacNeice, Robert Lowell, Dana Gioia, List of poems by Philip Larkin, Stephen Spender, John Ciardi, Kay Ryan, X. J. Kennedy, Lewis Turco, Randall Jarrell, Geoffrey Hill, James Merrill, Donald Justice, Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom, Anthony Hecht, Richard Eberhart, Howard Nemerov, Louise Bogan, Wendy Cope, David Mason, Yvor Winters, Jared Carter, Countee Cullen, Ned Balbo, William Baer, Rachel Hadas, Leo Yankevich, Kim Bridgford, Michael Donaghy, Kim Addonizio, Mona Van Duyn, Keith Holyoak, Michael J. Astrue, William Logan, Henri Coulette, A. E. Stallings, Julia Randall, Jane Greer, Timothy Steele, Robert Mezey, Rhina Espaillat, R. S. Gwynn, T. S. Kerrigan. Excerpt: Wystan Hugh Auden (; 21 February 1907 - 29 September 1973), who published as W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet, born in England, later an American citizen, regarded by many as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. His work is noted for its stylistic and technical achievements, its engagement with moral and political issues, and its variety of tone, form and content. The central themes of his poetry are love, politics and citizenship, religion and morals, and the relationship between unique human beings and the anonymous, impersonal world of nature. Auden grew up in Birmingham in a professional middle class family and read English literature at Christ Church, Oxford. His early poems, written in the late 1920s and early 1930s, alternated between telegraphic modern styles and fluent traditional ones, were written in an intense and dramatic tone, and...
