W. H. Auden.

出生时的名称：Wystan Hugh奥登

W. H. Auden.was a young, sensational English poet of the 1930s who became an elder statesman of Anglo-American literature by the time he died in 1973. He made his reputation while still at Oxford in the 1920s, and by the time he left England for New York to avoid World War II he was considered by many to be the spokes-poet of a generation -- an erudite, socially conscious and technically brilliant rising star. Once in America (1939), he wrote poems of all kinds (long and short), essays, films and speeches, as well as libretti and plays with more-than-just-pals Chester Kallman and克里斯托弗·伊瑟伍德（分别）。他教导和讲习（他也保持了与牛津的关系），并且在赢得1948年时变得更加着名普利策对于长诗焦虑的时代。批评者和学者仍然认为奥登是20世纪的伟大诗人之一，但他的诗歌很少对主流受众熟悉。他在纽约在奥地利牛津和维也纳度过了他的最后几年（他去世的地方）。他的诗歌近年来越来越新的通知，感谢这部电影四个婚礼和葬礼，它具有奥登的诗歌“葬礼蓝调”（“停止所有时钟，切断电话”）。他的作品包括诗歌（1930），看，陌生人！（1936年，也称为在这个岛上） 和阿基里斯的盾牌（1955年，国家书籍奖获得者）。