W.H. Auden (1907-1973) was a gay English poet known for love poems such as “Funeral Blues,” poems on political and social themes such as “September 1, 1939,” and poems on cultural and psychological themes such as “The Age of Anxiety.” Gay English poet known for love poems such as “Funeral Blues,” poems on political and social themes such as “September 1, 1939,” and poems on cultural and psychological themes such as “The Age of Anxiety,” for which he won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. He collaborated on three plays with Christopher Isherwood with whom he had an intermittent romantic relationship and collaborated on opera libretti with Chester Kallman to music by Igor Stravinsky. Since his death in 1973, his poetry has become known to a much wider public through various adaptations.