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What was W. H. Auden's education like?
W. H. Auden attended St Edmund's School, Hindhead, Surrey. At thirteen he went to Gresham's School in Norfolk.
Did W. H. Auden get good grades for his education?
Did W. H. Auden ever go to college?
In 1925 W. H. Auden went up to Christ Church, Oxford, with a scholarship in biology.
What did W. H. Auden do after college?
W. H. Auden left Britain for nine months, going to Berlin, partly to rebel against English repressiveness.
What comments did W. H. Auden receieve during his education years?
From his Oxford years onward, W. H. Auden's friends uniformly described him as funny, extravagant, sympathetic, generous, and, partly by his own choice, lonely.

Question: Did he recieve any cristism?
Self-contained rewrite: Did W. H. Auden recieve any criticism?