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A prolific writer of poems, plays, essays, and criticism, Wistan Hugh Auden was born in York, England, to a medical officer and a nurse. Auden studied at Oxford and taught at various universities in the United States, where he became a naturalized citizen in 1946. He won the Pulitzer Price in 1948 for his collection of poems, Age of Anxiety, and is regarded as a poet of political and intellectual conscience. His longterm relationship with poet Chester Kallman has been the subject of several recent biographies.

Wystan Hugh Auden
MaCkiCa`	W. H. Auden (1907-1973) A prolific writer of poems, plays, essays, and criticism, Wistan Hugh Auden was born in York, England, to a medical officer and a nurse. Auden studied at Oxford and taught at various universities in the United States, where he became a naturalized citizen in 1946. He won the Pulitzer Price in 1948 for his collection of poems, Age of Anxiety, and is regarded as a poet of political and intellectual conscience. His longterm relationship with poet Chester Kallman has been the subject of several recent biographies.
MaCkiCa`	Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come. Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead, Put cre^pe bows round the white necks of the public doves, Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves. He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong. The stars are not wanted now: put out every one; Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun; Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood; For nothing now can ever come to any good.