Wystan Hugh Auden

English-born naturalized American Wystan Hugh Auden not only wrote a great many poems that would later be set to music by leading composers of the twentieth century, but he collaborated on texts for works by some of his most prominent musical contemporaries. After his 1929 graduation from Christ Church College, Oxford, he began establishing a reputation as a poet with strongly leftist social convictions and an intense interest in the psychological problems of people in modern capitalist societies. Auden settled in the United States in 1939. There, he won the 1948 Pulitzer Priz...