W. H. Auden

W. H. Auden was a British-American poet whose work combined technical versatility with sustained attention to politics, morality, psychology, love, and religion. Born in York and educated at Oxford, he became a major English-language literary figure after the publication of *Poems* in 1930. His later career in the United States included influential poetry, essays, plays, and libretti, as well as service as chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.