Auden Tapestries

Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.

Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.

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Wystan Hugh Auden (1907–1973) was one of the essential poets of his generation. He was born in Great Britain and later moved to the United States. Jozef Brodsky thought he was "the greatest mind of the twentieth century". Auden won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

Wystan Hugh Auden (1907–1973) was one of the essential poets of his generation. He was born in Great Britain and later moved to the United States. Jozef Brodsky thought he was "the greatest mind of the twentieth century". Auden won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

Wystan Hugh Auden (1907–1973) was one of the essential poets of his generation. He was born in Great Britain and later moved to the United States. Jozef Brodsky thought he was "the greatest mind of the twentieth century". Auden won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

Auden

Wystan Hugh Auden (1907–1973) was one of the essential poets of his generation. He was born in Great Britain and later moved to the United States. Jozef Brodsky thought he was "the greatest mind of the twentieth century". Auden won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

Watercolor and pencil portrait of WYSTAN AUDEN. The painting is signed and dated on the lower right(LAUTIR 2023).

A Quote about poetry by W. H. Auden: "A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language."

"Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic." - W. H. Auden

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With this image, we celebrate Catalan poet and writer Gabriel Ferrater.

With this image, we celebrate Anglo-American writer Christopher Isherwood.

Ernst Toller was the president of a short-lived state called the Bavarian Soviet Republic. His presidency lasted for only six days. During his five years in Prison, Toller started writing theater plays and became a highly recognized expressionist playwright. Some of his titles are Transformation and Hoppla - We are Alive. He gave all of his money to refugees of the Spanish Civil War. In 1939, Toller killed himself in his hotel room in New York. W. H. Auden dedicated to him a poem, “In Memory of Ernst Toller.”

Victorian poet and novelist Thomas Hardy was influenced by Romanticism and gained fame with his novels Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

With this image, we celebrate English poet and novelist Philip Larkin.

Ernst Toller was the president of a short-lived state called the Bavarian Soviet Republic. His presidency lasted for only six days. During his five years in Prison, Toller started writing theater plays and became a highly recognized expressionist playwright. Some of his titles are Transformation and Hoppla - We are Alive. This is redisegned historical photograph of Ernst Toller, property of National Library of Israel, Schwadron collection. The picture is available at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ernst_Toller_-_Schwadron.jpg and it is altered by clors and geometrical shapes and what feels like a folk-pattern. CC BY 3.0 Deed Attribution 3.0 Unported