W. H. Auden wrote poetry, essays and libretti across subjects ranging from love and private anxiety to politics, war, religion and the responsibilities of art. Poems such as Musée des Beaux Arts examine suffering through close attention to ordinary life continuing around it, while September 1, 1939 responds to the outbreak of the Second World War and Funeral Blues turns formal repetition into grief. Longer works including The Age of Anxiety use multiple voices and intellectual argument to portray modern isolation. Auden's style changed markedly across his career, from compressed 1930s political poetry to more reflective religious and conversational work after his move to the United States. His writing fits twentieth-century poetry, political verse and modernist-influenced lyric, with strong appeal for readers of Louis MacNeice, Stephen Spender and other poets of the interwar generation. Read more Less
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