W. H. Auden - Poetry International 1971

Date of Recording: 7-9 or 10-1971
Date of Broadcast: 7-18-1971

The Art of Healing (In Memoriam David Protetch, M.D.)
Lines to Dr. Walter Birk on his Retiring from General Practice
Talking to Myself (for Oliver Sacks)

From the The Spoken Word CD

Wystan Hugh Auden (21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973) was an English-American poet. Auden's poetry was noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and its variety in tone, form and content. He is best known for love poems such as "Funeral Blues", poems on political and social themes such as "September 1, 1939" and "The Shield of Achilles", poems on cultural and psychological themes such as The Age of Anxiety, and poems on religious themes such as "For the Time Being" and "Horae Canonicae."

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