Auden

[awd-n]

noun

1. W(ystan) H(ugh) 1907–73, English poet in the U.S.

Auden

/ ˈɔːdən /

noun

1. W ( ystan ) H ( ugh ). 1907–73, US poet, dramatist, critic, and librettist, born in Britain; noted for his lyric and satirical poems and for plays written in collaboration with Christopher Isherwood

Example Sentences

Heaney grieves the violence, memorializing its complexity and horror in a poem that can stand with Yeats and Auden.

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Auden, meditating on the role of the artist in a poem by W.B.

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Auden was a champion of his work, as was Nobel-prize winner John Steinbeck.

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Auden or a passage from Don DeLillo to underscore an idea about politics.

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Auden: "Those to whom evil is done / Do evil in return."

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