W. H. Auden

W. H. Auden (1907-1973) was a British-American poet who achieved early fame in the 1930s as a left-wing voice during the Great Depression, collaborating on verse dramas with Christopher Isherwood and publishing key works like Poems (1930) and The Orators (1932) [Encyclopedia Britannica]. In 1939, he moved to the United States, became a U.S. citizen in 1946, and shifted toward religious and psychological themes in masterpieces such as the Pulitzer-winning The Age of Anxiety (1947), while also writing opera libretti and serving as Oxford's Professor of Poetry (1956-1961) [Poetry Foundation].