Though aware of our rank and alert to obey orders
“O where are you going?” said reader to rider
It was Easter as I walked in the public gardensĭoom is dark and deeper than any sea-dingle Taller to-day, we remember similar evenings Who stands, the crux left of the watershedĬontrol of the passes was, he saw, the key He was awarded the National Medal for Literature in 1967. Subsequently he lived in a number of countries, including Italy and Austria, and in 1971 he returned to England. From 1956 to 1961 he was professor of poetry at Oxford. In 1939 Auden moved to the United States and became a citizen in 1946, and beginning that year taught at a number of American colleges and universities. His other works include the libretto, with his companion Chester Kallman, for Stravinsky's opera The Rake's Progress (1953) A Certain World: A Commonplace Book (1970) and The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays (1968). Later volumes include Spain (1937), New Year Letter (1941), For the Time Being, a Christmas Oratorio (1945), The Age of Anxiety (1947 Pulitzer Prize), Nones (1951), The Shield of Achilles (1955), Homage to Clio (1960), About the House (1965), Epistle of a Godson (1972), and Thank You, Fog (1974). Auden's first volume of poetry appeared in 1930. He lived in Germany during the early days of Nazism, and was a stretcher-bearer for the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War. With Isherwood he wrote three verse plays. During the 1930s he was the leader of a left-wing literary group that included Christopher Isherwood and Stephen Spender. Auden (1907-73) was born in York, England, and educated at Oxford.
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