Auden

The works of ...

... W. H. AUDEN

*Publication details of Musee de Beaux Arts:*	Appeared in Collected Poems, published in 1976.
Other literary works include:	Poems (1930). Orators (1932). The Dance of Death (1933). The Age of Anxiety (1947).

A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY

Born:

21st February 1907, York, England.

Early years:

Auden was the youngest son of a doctor and was brought up in Birmingham, where his father was a schools' medical officer and later Professor of public health at the University of Birmingham.

Schooling:

At the age of eight, Auden was sent to St. Edmund's preparatory school in Surrey, and at thirteen to a public school in Norfolk. Auden intended to be mining engineer and was interested primarily in science, (he specialized in biology). In 1925, he entered the University of Oxford.

Career:

In 1928, Auden went to Berlin for a year and in 1929 he returned and became a schoolmaster in Scotland and England for five years. He then got a job at the GPO film unit where he wrote the text for the documentary film Night Mail. From 1932 he began to write for the Listener, and other magazines. In 1941, he became assistant Professor of English at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he remained for a year, moving on to teach at Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, from 1942 to 1945.

Final years:

He was living in America, but maintained links with Christ Church College, Oxford. He was a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 1954 to 1973, and divided most of the second half of his life between residences in New York City and Austria.

Died:

He died in his sleep of heart failure on 28th September, 1973, in Vienna .

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Born:	21st February 1907, York, England.
Early years:	Auden was the youngest son of a doctor and was brought up in Birmingham, where his father was a schools' medical officer and later Professor of public health at the University of Birmingham.
Schooling:	At the age of eight, Auden was sent to St. Edmund's preparatory school in Surrey, and at thirteen to a public school in Norfolk. Auden intended to be mining engineer and was interested primarily in science, (he specialized in biology). In 1925, he entered the University of Oxford.
Career:	In 1928, Auden went to Berlin for a year and in 1929 he returned and became a schoolmaster in Scotland and England for five years. He then got a job at the GPO film unit where he wrote the text for the documentary film Night Mail. From 1932 he began to write for the Listener, and other magazines. In 1941, he became assistant Professor of English at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he remained for a year, moving on to teach at Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, from 1942 to 1945.
Final years:	He was living in America, but maintained links with Christ Church College, Oxford. He was a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 1954 to 1973, and divided most of the second half of his life between residences in New York City and Austria.
Died:	He died in his sleep of heart failure on 28th September, 1973, in Vienna .