W.H. Auden

By sutthom24

  • Auden's birth

  • Period: to

    World War One

  • Starts Elementary School

    Meets Christopher Isherwood here

  • Starts Middle School

  • Oxford College

    Originally he had a scholarship in biology, but while attending there he turned his attention to poetry.
  • Period: to

    Trip to Berlin

  • 'Poems' printed

  • Period: to

    The Great Depression

  • 'O What is That Sound' Written

  • 'O What is That Sound' Published

  • Auden marries Erika Mann

  • 'Look Stranger!' published

    Contains:
    'O What is That Sound'
  • Period: to

    Spanish Civil War

  • 'Spain' Written and Published

  • 'Musée des Beaux Arts' Written

  • 'Journey to a War' published

  • 'In Memory of W.B. Yeats' Written and Published

  • 'September 1, 1939' Written and Published

  • 'Musée des Beaux Arts' Published

  • Moved to USA

  • W.B. Yeats Dies

  • Period: to

    World War Two

  • 'Another Time' published

    includes:
    'September 1, 1939'
    'Spain 1937'
    'In Memory of W.B. Yeats'
    'Musee Des Beaux Arts'

  • Becomes a U.S. citizen

  • Period: to

    Cold War

  • 'The Shield of Achilles' Poem Published

  • 'The Shield of Achilles' Collection Published

  • Auden starts teaching at Oxford University

    As a professor of poetry until 1961

  • Erika Mann Dies

  • Auden Dies

    Of heart failure :(