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H. Auden"></figure> <h1 class="author__headline"><span itemprop="name">W. H. Auden</span> Quotes</h1> </div> <div class="author__about__description"> <p> <span itemprop="nationality"><a href="/nationality/us/">United States</a></span>, <span itemprop="jobTitle"><a href="/profession/2/">Poet</a></span><br> <span itemprop="birthDate"> <a href="/born/feb-21/" title="Was Born">February 21</a>, <a href="/born/1907/" title="birthdate_year_title">1907</a></span> – <span itemprop="deathDate" title="Died on">September, 29, 1973.</span></p><div class="cut" itemprop="description" id="author__description"> <p> Wystan Hugh Auden was an English-American poet. Auden's poetry was noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and its variety in tone, form and content. He is best known for love poems such as "Funeral Blues", poems on political and social themes such as "September 1, 1939" and "The Shield of Achilles", poems on cultural and psychological themes such as The Age of Anxiety, and poems on religious themes such as "For the Time Being" and "Horae Canonicae." </p> </div> <span class="more" id="auhtor_info_more" more="more" less="Less">more</span> <ul class="author__about__options"><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._H._Auden" class="i-wiki" target="_blank" itemprop="url" title="Wikipedia article about W. H. 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Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry.</a> </blockquote> <cite itemprop="spokenByCharacter" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a href="/a148/"> <figure class="character-image"> <img itemprop="image" src="//cdn.citatis.com/img/a/14/148.v9.jpg" alt="W. H. Auden"> </figure> <span class="cite-src" itemprop="name">W. H. 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Lear is not a tragic hero, Othello is.</a> </blockquote> <cite itemprop="spokenByCharacter" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a href="/a148/"> <figure class="character-image"> <img itemprop="image" src="//cdn.citatis.com/img/a/14/148.v9.jpg" alt="W. H. Auden"> </figure> <span class="cite-src" itemprop="name">W. H. 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Dance, dance, for the figure is easy The tune is catching and will not stop Dance till the stars come down from the rafters Dance, dance, dance till you drop.</a> </blockquote> <cite itemprop="spokenByCharacter" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a href="/a148/"> <figure class="character-image"> <img itemprop="image" src="//cdn.citatis.com/img/a/14/148.v9.jpg" alt="W. H. Auden"> </figure> <span class="cite-src" itemprop="name">W. H. 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