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Auden

Auden

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An English-born American poet known for skillful poems about many subjects
  • proper noun
  • /ˈɔːdən/
  • Literature
: Auden
  • I think immediately of W. H. Auden, a real master of irony.
  • W. H. Auden
  • H. Auden
  • Auden's Rakewell

It is time to weep and sing, wrote WH Auden.

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Examples

  • The poet Auden said thousands have lived without love, none without water.

    TED-Ed

  • Do you like Auden's poetry, sir?

    The History Boys (2006)

  • I recall once visiting W. H. Auden in the Village.

    Academic text (1991)

  • So WH Auden wrote a beautiful poem and at the end he said, love one another or die.

  • Of course, the poet W.H. Auden claimed... there was no such thing as the perfect murder.

    Murder 101 (1991)

  • Do poets, as Auden wrote of Yeats, become their readers when they die?

    Academic text (2011)

  • The proof is in Auden's use of the graveyard scene.

    Academic text (1996)

  • For whatever reason, both Auden and Stravinsky focus their attention on Anne Trulove.

    Academic text (1996)

  • Michael Field thus anticipates the theme of the banality of tragedy in Auden's famous ekphrastic poem "Musée des Beaux Arts."

    Academic text (2017)

  • The poet Auden said thousands have lived without love, none without water.

Surface Forms

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Etymology

Auden probably comes from an old Northern European personal name whose first part, Aud-, meant 'wealth' or 'good fortune'. So thinking of Auden as a name that once suggested 'prosperity' gives an easy memory hook for the poet's surname.