W.H. Auden

Wystan Hugh Auden (21 Februari 1907 – 29 September 1973 ) adalah seorang penyair dan novelis berkebangsaan Amerika.^[1]

W.H. Auden
W. H. Auden
Lahir	(1907-02-21)21 Februari 1907 York, Inggris
Meninggal	29 September 1973(1973-09-29) (umur 66) Wina, Austria
Kebangsaan	Inggris; Amerika (sejak 1946)
Pekerjaan	Penyair
Kerabat	George Augustus Auden (ayah), Constance Rosalie Bicknell Auden (ibu), George Bernard Auden (saudara laki-laki), John Bicknell Auden (saudara laki-laki)
Penghargaan (1971) United Nations Peace Medal (en) (1971) Golden Wreath (en) (1970) St. Louis Literary Award (en) (1966) Austrian State Prize for European Literature (en) (1956) National Book Award (en) (1954) Bollingen Prize (en) (1948) Penghargaan Pulitzer untuk Puisi (1942) Guggenheim Fellowship (en) Feltrinelli Prize (en) Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry (en)

Beberapa puisi karyanya antara lain:

1. Lullaby^[2]
2. As I Walked Out One Evening^[2]
3. Epitaph on a Tyrant^[2]
4. In Memory of W. B. Yeats^[2]
5. The Unknown Citizen^[2]
6. September 1, 1939^[2]
7. In Memory of Sigmund Freud^[2]
8. The Fall of Rome^[2]
9. The Shield of Achilles^[2]
10. The More Loving One^[2]
11. On the Circuit^[2]
12. Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone^[2][3]
13. O the valley in the summer where I and my John^[2]
14. If I could tell you^[2]
15. After Reading a Child's Guide to Modern Physics^[2]

Referensi

1. "W. H. Auden (British poet)". Encyclopedia Britannica. Diakses tanggal 2010-05-25.
2. "Poems by W. H. Auden". The W. H. Auden Society. Diakses tanggal 2010-05-25.
3. Philip, Neil. 2005. Best-Loved Poems. Britania Raya, Little Brown.