Auden

American  

[awd-n] / ˈɔd n /

noun

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

---

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

---

Example Sentences

Auden also believed that Kafka’s writing could be dangerous for melancholics and that perhaps this is why Kafka wanted it destroyed.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 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 hailed his "magnificent Moby Dick rhetoric", while Orwell said Hilton's voice was "exceedingly rare and correspondingly important" and declared he had a "considerable literary gift".

From BBC • Jul. 7, 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