Anglo-American poet Wystan Hugh Auden was born in York on the 21st February 1907.
He graduated form Oxford in 1928 and after spending a year in Germany returned to the UK to become a teacher.
Possibly best known for his poem “Funeral Blues”, made famous by the film Four Weddings and a Funeral. He won the Pulizer Prize in 1947 for “The Age of Anxiety”.
Auden emigrated to the United States in 1939 with his school friend and fellow writer Christopher Isherwood where he me poet Chester Kallman who became his companion until his death in Austria on 29th September 1973.
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