W. H. Auden

Wystan Hugh Auden was born in 1907, the son of a doctor, and taught in private schools after Oxford. He stayed in Berlin, Iceland and China, left for Spain in 1937 to drive an ambulance, and married the daughter of a German writer to give her a British passport. His departure for the United States, in early 1939, was held against him in England as a betrayal. He later disowned his most committed texts, wrote opera libretti, and died in Vienna in 1973.

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