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W. H. Auden, Wystan Hugh Auden, born Feb. 21, 1907, York, Yorkshire, Eng., died Sept. 29, 1973, Vienna, Austria. English-born poet and man of letters who achieved early fame in the 1930s as a hero of the left during the Great Depression. Most of his verse dramas of this period were written in collaboration with Christopher Isherwood. In 1939 Auden settled in the United States, becoming a U.S. citizen.

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Criticism should be a casual conversation. The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own. Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age. Of course, Behaviorism works. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviorist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public. Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books. More Quotes by W. H. Auden: Page 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

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