was he famous?
Yes, he is ranked as highest of three poets
W. H. Auden
ranks him as the highest of the three. Opinions have ranged from those of Hugh MacDiarmid, who called him "a complete wash-out
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 can you mention any of his works? "Paid on Both Sides" can you mention a few others? "Poems", "The Orators: An English Study"
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W. H. Auden [SEP] Reputation and influence
Auden's stature in modern literature has been contested. Probably the most common critical view from the 1930s onward ranked him as the last and least of the three major twentieth-century British and Irish poets—behind Yeats and Eliot—while a minority view, more prominent in recent years, ranks him as the highest of the three. Opinions have ranged from those of Hugh MacDiarmid, who called him "a complete wash-out"; F. R. Leavis, who wrote that Auden's ironic style was "self-defensive, self-indulgent or merely irresponsible"; and Harold Bloom, who wrote "Close thy Auden, open thy [Wallace] Stevens," to the obituarist in "The Times", who wrote: "W.H.