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The 18 pages that link to W. H. Auden, each with the reason it gives.

• Benjamin BrittenRelated: Auden’s poetry and artistic partnership influenced Britten’s early stage and vocal works.

• Joseph BrodskyRelated: Auden helped Brodsky establish himself after his arrival in the United States.

• Poetry and politicsRelated: His writing explored how ideology and historical crisis test individual responsibility.

• John AshberyRelated: Ashbery studied with Auden at Harvard, though his later poetry departed sharply from Auden’s clarity and control.

• Christopher IsherwoodRelated: Auden encouraged Isherwood’s writing and collaborated with him on plays and travel books.

• Wyndham LewisRelated: Auden and his contemporaries became targets of Lewis’s criticism of politically engaged poetry.

• Gerard Manley HopkinsRelated: Auden acknowledged Hopkins as a major predecessor in modern English verse.

• Cecil Day-LewisRelated: Auden was Day-Lewis’s close contemporary and fellow member of the 1930s poetic generation.

• James SchuylerRelated: Schuyler worked for Auden at the literary magazine The New Yorker in the 1940s.

• Stephen SpenderRelated: Auden was Spender’s close contemporary and a central figure in their shared literary circle.

• Christopher FryRelated: Auden’s poetic theatre offers a contemporary point of comparison for Fry’s dramatic verse.

• M. F. K. FisherRelated: Auden praised Fisher’s writing and contributed a preface to The Art of Eating.

• Theodore RoethkeRelated: Auden helped bring Roethke’s early poems to wider attention through editorial support.

• Louis MacNeiceRelated: Auden was MacNeice’s friend and fellow poet, and their collaboration helped shape the period’s literary reputation.

• Olaf StapledonRelated: Auden’s 1937 essay on Stapledon helped bring his imaginative achievement to wider critical attention.