can you mention any of his works?
"Paid on Both Sides"
W. H. Auden
"Paid on Both Sides"
english writer best known for poems of the sea john UNANSWERABLE who is w.h.auden? An Anglo-American poet where was he born? He was born in York did he travel to any other country? He moved to the United States when? 1939 any reason behind it? UNANSWERABLE
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W. H. Auden [SEP] Up to 1930
In 1928 he wrote his first dramatic work, "Paid on Both Sides", subtitled "A Charade", which combined style and content from the Icelandic sagas with jokes from English school life. This mixture of tragedy and farce, with a dream play-within-a-play, introduced the mixed styles and content of much of his later work. This drama and thirty short poems appeared in his first published book "Poems" (1930, 2nd edition with seven poems replaced, 1933); the poems in the book were mostly lyrical and gnomic mediations on hoped-for or unconsummated love and on themes of personal, social, and seasonal renewal; among these poems were "It was Easter as I walked," "Doom is dark," "Sir, no man's enemy," and "This lunar beauty." A recurrent theme in these early poems is the effect of "family ghosts", Auden's term for the powerful, unseen psychological effects of preceding generations on any individual life (and the title of a poem).