W. H. Auden
1907 – 1973
English

Poet. His life and work variously embraced poetry, literature, opera librettos, travel, left-wing political ideologies, the struggle against Fascism in Spain, and eventually Christianity, specifically a High Church Anglicanism.

Contemporaries
1929–2003Bernard Williams
1858–1943Beatrice Webb
1914–1981Dame Barbara Ward
1880–1958Marie Stopes
1961–1996Princess Diana
1893–1957Dorothy Sayers
1866–1943Beatrix Potter
1900–1969Stephen Potter
1857–1928Emmeline Pankhurst
1933–1967Joe Orton
1903–1950George Orwell
1880–1912Lawrence Oates
1873–1958G. E. Moore
1882–1956A. A. Milne
1865–1936Rudyard Kipling
1894–1963Aldous Huxley
1912–1990Lawrence Durrell
1847–1933Annie Besant
1910–1989Sir A. J. Ayer