Auden

American  

[awd-n] / ˈɔd n /

noun

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

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Auden British  

/ 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

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Example Sentences

Auden ultimately felt that his poem was propaganda, and his sympathies came to lie rather with the common person trampled under the march of History.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

W. H. Auden once wrote of a miserable Roman soldier guarding a cold, rain-soaked wall in northern Europe, mentioning "lice in my tunic and a cold in my nose."

From Science Daily • Dec. 21, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2025

Auden and Chester Kallman, or the musical comedy presented by the Public Theater in 2013, with songs by Michael Friedman, Dehnert’s version does not use its songs to deepen character and propel the story.

From New York Times • Jul. 27, 2023

I’m enclosing a poem by Auden on the death of Yeats cut out from an old London Mercury from last year.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan