Journey to a War (Armchair Traveller Series)
W. H. Auden was born in York in 1907 and brought up in Birmingham. His first book, Poems,  was published by T. S. Eliot at Faber in 1930. He went to Spain during the civil  war, to Iceland (with Louis MacNeice) and later travelled to China. In  1939 he and Christopher Isherwood left for America, where Auden spent  the next fifteen years lecturing, reviewing, writing poetry and opera  librettos, and editing anthologies. He became an American citizen in  1946, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1948. In 1956 he was elected  Professor of Poetry at Oxford, and a year later went to live in  Kirchstetten in Austria, after spending several summers on Ischia. He  died in Vienna in 1973.--This text refers to an alternatePaperbackedition.