W. H. Auden Archives - The American Scholar

The Doctor’s Discontents

By Mark Edmundson | 09/05/2017 |

A harshly critical new biography of the father of psychotherapy

“Homage to Auden”

By David Lehman | 06/02/2015 |

Major Auden

By Brian Doyle | 12/06/2013 |

The poet’s new clothes

All Scotland Waits for Her

By N. S. Thompson | 09/04/2012 |

An inspired British documentary featured an unforgettable locomotive, and the work of two of the 20th century’s greatest artists

Homage to a Bad Boy: John Ashbery

By Langdon Hammer | 03/02/2011

Lunching on Olympus

By Steven L. Isenberg | 01/28/2010

My meals with W. H. Auden, E. M. Forster, Philip Larkin, and William Empson