From 1947 to 1957 he wintered in New York and summered in Ischia from 1958 until the end of his life he wintered in New York (in Oxford in 1972–73) and summered in Kirchstetten, Lower Austria. He taught from 1941 to 1945 in American universities, followed by occasional visiting professorships in the 1950s. In 1939, he moved to the United States and became an American citizen in 1946, retaining his British citizenship. After a few months in Berlin in 1928–29, he spent five years (1930–35) teaching in British private preparatory schools, then travelled to Iceland and China to write books about his journeys. ![]() He attended various English independent (or public) schools and studied English at Christ Church, Oxford. He was born in York and grew up in and near Birmingham in a professional middle-class family. Some of his best known poems are about love, such as " Funeral Blues" on political and social themes, such as " September 1, 1939" and " The Shield of Achilles" on cultural and psychological themes, such as The Age of Anxiety and on religious themes such as " For the Time Being" and " Horae Canonicae". 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. ![]() Wystan Hugh Auden ( / ˈ w ɪ s t ən ˈ h juː ˈ ɔː d ən/ 21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973 ) was a British-American poet. ![]() Constance Rosalie Bicknell Auden (mother).
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