Título: W. H. Auden
Seção: United States and Europe, 1939-73
Background: Wystan Hugh Auden (21 February 1907 - 29 September 1973) was an English-American poet. Auden's poetry was noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and its variety in tone, form and content. He is best known for love poems such as "Funeral Blues", poems on political and social themes such as "September 1, 1939" and "The Shield of Achilles", poems on cultural and psychological themes such as The Age of Anxiety, and poems on religious themes such as "For the Time Being" and "Horae Canonicae." He was born in York, grew up in and near Birmingham in a professional middle-class family.

Conteúdo: Auden was born in York, England, to George Augustus Auden (1872-1957), a physician, and Constance Rosalie Auden (nee Bicknell; 1869-1941), who had trained (but never served) as a missionary nurse. He was the third of three sons; the eldest, George Bernard Auden (1900-1978), became a farmer, while the second, John Bicknell Auden (1903-1991), became a geologist.  Auden, whose grandfathers were both Church of England clergymen, grew up in an Anglo-Catholic household that followed a "High" form of Anglicanism with doctrine and ritual resembling those of Roman Catholicism. He traced his love of music and language partly to the church services of his childhood. He believed he was of Icelandic descent, and his lifelong fascination with Icelandic legends and Old Norse sagas is evident in his work.  In 1908 his family moved to Homer Road, Solihull, near Birmingham, where his father had been appointed the School Medical Officer and Lecturer (later Professor) of Public Health. Auden's lifelong psychoanalytic interests began in his father's library. From the age of eight he attended boarding schools, returning home for holidays. His visits to the Pennine landscape and its declining lead-mining industry figure in many of his poems; the remote decaying mining village of Rookhope was for him a "sacred landscape", evoked in a late poem, "Amor Loci". Until he was fifteen he expected to become a mining engineer, but his passion for words had already begun. He wrote later: "words so excite me t

user: When did Auden go to the United States?

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user: What did Auden have to do with the United States?

assistant: worked with a group of artists and filmmakers on documentary films in the 1930s and with the New York Pro Musica

user: What state was he in at this time?

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assistant: Auden controversially rewrote or discarded some of his most famous poems when he prepared his later collected editions.

user: What is a poem that he discarded or rewrote?

assistant: effective. His rejected poems include "Spain" and "September 1, 1939".

user: What is another example of his writing during the 1939 to 1973 period?

assistant: Auden published about four hundred poems, including seven long poems (two of them book-length).

user: What is the name of one of these poems?

assistant: "Christmas Oratorio"

user: What is a popular work that he did during this time period

assistant: He collaborated on plays with Christopher Isherwood and on opera libretti with Chester Kallman,