Auden

[ awd-n ]

/ ˈɔd n /

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noun

W(ys·tan) H(ugh)

[wis-tuhn], /ˈwɪs tən/, 1907–73, English poet in the U.S.

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How to use Auden in a sentence

The poet Auden said, “Thousands have lived without love; none without water.”
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In Oxford, Lear will relate stories from the lives of figures like W.H. Auden, Lewis Carroll, and T.E. Lawrence.
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There are no signs yet, to paraphrase W.H. Auden, that the dreadful martyrdom of JFK has run its course.
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Proust liked to have two cups with milk, but Auden, quite to the contrary, only took one.
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A culture,” the poet W.H. Auden observed, “is no better than its woods.
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Life, said Auden Spoon-bill, is pretty fine, no matter how it is arranged.
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Then along the bank from the direction of the date palms came Auden Spoon-bill, he who had gone to Delilahs heart.
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Auden Spoon-bill went along parallel to the shore of the river until he saw Delilah standing in the pale green water.
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British Dictionary definitions for Auden

Auden

/ (ˈɔːdən) /

noun

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

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