Years ago, I was doggedly answering the questions on a standardized high school achievement test when I was asked to identify the poetic device employed in the following stanza: “ ‘O where are you ...

In a 1960 review of books of poetry by Philip Larkin and Geoffrey Hill, W.H. Auden remarked: “To write about a poet for others who have not yet read him is not criticism but reviewing, and reviewing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new biography explores the life of WH Auden, one of the most important and enduring poets of his time - Harry Redl/Time Life ...

“A great book reads you,” W. H. Auden once wrote, meaning that you grasp the depths of a profound work of literary art the more you deepen your own sense of life. But a great work of art can also ...

Any writer is grateful for attention, especially praise. I imagine that the late Anglo-American poet W.H. Auden (1907-1973) would warm to Alexander McCall Smith, a lawyer-novelist of distinction, for ...

It's one of those poems people reach for in times when it feels like the sky is falling. It's also generally regarded as one of the great poems of the 20th century. "September 1, 1939," as its title ...

W.H. Auden is a Greek poet, at least when it comes to nature. No, I don’t mean that he is all about olive trees and white sand beaches: I mean there is something fundamentally classical in his ...

There was a time when every able schoolchild in American memorized poems -- which is perhaps why the very word "memorization," for many, conjures unhappy images of 1950s schoolrooms where glassy-eyed ...