Auden,
W(ystan) H(ugh) 1907-73; U.S. poet, born in England
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(ôdˈn), W(ystan) H(ugh) 1907-1973.
British-born American writer and critic whose poems, published in collections such as The Dance of Death (1933) and The Double Man (1941), established his importance in 20th-century literature.