What was w.h audens social circumstances?
I suggest you read all of this piece as your question is difficult to answer in a simple line. He is the beginning of the piece and the link. W. H. Auden (1907-1973) – Wystan Hugh Auden English-born poet, whose world view developed from youthful rebellion to rediscovered Anglo-Catholicism. In his work Auden reconciled tradition and modernism. Auden is widely considered among the greatest literary figures of the 20th century. “But time is always guilty. Someone must pay for Our loss of happiness, our happiness itself.” (from ‘Detective Story’ in Collected Poems, 1991) Wystan Hugh Auden was born in York, North Yorkshire, the son of George Augustus Auden, a distinguished physician, and Rosalie (Bicknell) Auden. Solihull in the West Midlands, where Auden was brought up, remained important to him as a poet. Auden was educated at St. Edmund’s Hindhood and then at Gresham’s School, Holt, Norfolk. In 1925 he entered Christ Church, Oxford. Auden’s studies and writing progressed without much suc
