DOTHAN, Ala. (WTVY) - Dothan Houston County Library Director Chris Warren joined News4 This Morning to tell us about the newest Chapter Chat pick. April is National Poetry Month, so this month’s pick ...

"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Poems, Volume I: 1927-1939," edited by Edward Mendelson. Princeton University Press. 848 pp. $60 "The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Poems, Volume II: 1940-1973," ...

He was hardly the only famous poet of his blazing, far-flung generation. But he was the one most dogged by disputes over the nature and authenticity of his talent. Even among admirers, there was ample ...

Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine parallels Adolf Hitler’s invasion of Poland in ways that aren’t small. A dictator’s claim to Lebensraum started with Sudetenland and Austria and then went ...

Critic Ian Sansom's deeply informed and unapologetically digressive new book dives into Auden's life — as well as the life of his singular poem. W.H. Auden's Poem 'September 1, 1939' Still Resonates ...

On the bitterly chilly night of Monday, March 5, the wood-paneled Art Deco auditorium of the 92nd Street Y was a warm place to be. For a centenary tribute to W.H. Auden (1907-73), the room was filled ...

Poet W.H. Auden was born in England 100 years ago today. The man he chose to be his literary executor, Edward Mendelson, says Auden's goal was to have a conversation with his readers. He believed that ...

NPR's Scott Simon reads W.H. Auden's "September, 1, 1939," a poem that resonates with the smoke and destruction witnesses in the wake of the... 20 Years After 9/11, W.H. Auden's Poem 'September 1, ...

Although the commemoration in New York of the tenth anniversary of W. H. Auden’s death was a touching way for the poet’s many friends and admirers to honor his memory, it also offered the chance for ...

“A great book reads you,” W. H. Auden once wrote, meaning that you grasp the depths of a profound work of literary art the more you deepen your own sense of life. But a great work of art can also ...

It's one of those poems people reach for in times when it feels like the sky is falling. It's also generally regarded as one of the great poems of the 20th century. "September 1, 1939," as its title ...