Conversation so far:
What was Auden's education like?
Auden attended St Edmund's School, Hindhead, Surrey, where he met Christopher Isherwood, later famous in his own right as a novelist.
At thirteen he went to Gresham's School in Norfolk.
Did he get good grades?
he had lost interest.
Did he ever go to college?
Christ Church, Oxford, with a scholarship in biology.

Question: What did he do after college?
Self-contained rewrite: What did W. H. Auden do after college?