W. H. Auden

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"Poets draw upon life experiences and intellectual influences in developing their work, with some such influences being conscious and others unconscious but perceptible. W.H. Auden was a very conscious poet, a theorist as well as a poet, and one who understood the influences shaping his poetry and who made deliberate use of them to convey his themes and emotional impact. An examination of Auden's poetry and his theories of poetry shows that he was influenced by strong intellectual currents of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and that he consciously used the fact and power of ideology as he made use of the developing existentialism of S?ren Kierkegaard and the social and political writings of Marx and other Communist thinkers to convey his particular notions of order.

In a famous lecture on poetry delivered by Auden at Oxford, ... "

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