1907 - 1973
Wystan Hugh Auden (; 21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973) was a British-American poet. Auden's poetry is noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and its variety in tone, form, and content. Some of his best known poems are about love, such as "Funeral Blues"; on political and social themes, such as "September 1, 1939" and "The Shield of Achilles"; on cultural and psychological themes, such as The Age of Anxiety; and on religious themes, such as "For the Time Being" and "Horae Canonicae".Auden was born in York and grew up in and near Birmingham in a professional middle-class family. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of W. H. Auden has received more than 4,112,908 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 61 in 2019). W. H. Auden is the 1,066th most popular writer (down from 891st in 2019), the 851st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 690th in 2019) and the 103rd most popular British Writer.
W. H. Auden is most famous for his poetry. He was a British poet who was born in the United States, but moved to England as a child. He is best known for his long poems "September 1, 1939" and "Funeral Blues."
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Among writers, W. H. Auden ranks 1,066 out of 5,755. Before him are Leonid Andreyev, Adalberon, Irwin Shaw, Branislav Nušić, Cormac McCarthy, and Kazi Nazrul Islam. After him are Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus, Madeleine de Scudéry, Lucrezia Tornabuoni, Marcel Pagnol, Sulpicius Severus, and Mercè Rodoreda.
1871 - 1919
HPI: 60.54
Rank: 1,060
947 - 1030
HPI: 60.54
Rank: 1,061
1913 - 1984
HPI: 60.53
Rank: 1,062
1864 - 1938
HPI: 60.52
Rank: 1,063
1933 - 2023
HPI: 60.51
Rank: 1,064
1899 - 1976
HPI: 60.49
Rank: 1,065
1907 - 1973
HPI: 60.47
Rank: 1,066
64 BC - 8
HPI: 60.47
Rank: 1,067
1607 - 1701
HPI: 60.46
Rank: 1,068
1427 - 1482
HPI: 60.45
Rank: 1,069
1895 - 1974
HPI: 60.45
Rank: 1,070
360 - 420
HPI: 60.44
Rank: 1,071
1908 - 1983
HPI: 60.43
Rank: 1,072
Among people born in 1907, W. H. Auden ranks 54. Before him are H. L. A. Hart, Roman Shukhevych, Lê Duẩn, Zarah Leander, Alfonso, Prince of Asturias, and Yoshiko Kawashima. After him are Alexander R. Todd, Ernesto Geisel, Cesar Romero, Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, Miklós Rózsa, and Fabian von Schlabrendorff. Among people deceased in 1973, W. H. Auden ranks 51. Before him are Edward G. Robinson, Howard H. Aiken, Gerard Kuiper, Frank Costello, Taha Hussein, and Emmy Göring. After him are Otto Klemperer, Robert Siodmak, Alan Watts, E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Leo Strauss, and Katina Paxinou.
1907 - 1992
HPI: 61.78
Rank: 48
1907 - 1950
HPI: 61.42
Rank: 49
1907 - 1986
HPI: 61.39
Rank: 50
1907 - 1981
HPI: 61.17
Rank: 51
1907 - 1938
HPI: 60.72
Rank: 52
1907 - 1948
HPI: 60.72
Rank: 53
1907 - 1973
HPI: 60.47
Rank: 54
1907 - 1997
HPI: 59.93
Rank: 55
1907 - 1996
HPI: 59.77
Rank: 56
1907 - 1994
HPI: 59.75
Rank: 57
1907 - 1967
HPI: 59.68
Rank: 58
1907 - 1995
HPI: 59.64
Rank: 59
1907 - 1980
HPI: 59.45
Rank: 60
1893 - 1973
HPI: 62.25
Rank: 45
1900 - 1973
HPI: 62.11
Rank: 46
1905 - 1973
HPI: 61.97
Rank: 47
1891 - 1973
HPI: 61.80
Rank: 48
1889 - 1973
HPI: 61.51
Rank: 49
1893 - 1973
HPI: 61.47
Rank: 50
1907 - 1973
HPI: 60.47
Rank: 51
1885 - 1973
HPI: 60.03
Rank: 52
1900 - 1973
HPI: 60.02
Rank: 53
1915 - 1973
HPI: 59.79
Rank: 54
1902 - 1973
HPI: 59.52
Rank: 55
1899 - 1973
HPI: 59.48
Rank: 56
1900 - 1973
HPI: 59.30
Rank: 57
Among people born in United Kingdom, W. H. Auden ranks 851 out of 7,765. Before him are Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (1764), John Cale (1942), John Cockcroft (1897), Damon Hill (1960), Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury (1671), and Albert Pierrepoint (1905). After him are Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax (1881), Olave Baden-Powell (1889), William Penn (1645), William John Macquorn Rankine (1820), Billy Idol (1955), and Harthacnut I of Denmark (880).
1764 - 1845
HPI: 60.52
Rank: 845
1942 - Present
HPI: 60.52
Rank: 846
1897 - 1967
HPI: 60.51
Rank: 847
1960 - Present
HPI: 60.49
Rank: 848
1671 - 1713
HPI: 60.49
Rank: 849
1905 - 1992
HPI: 60.49
Rank: 850
1907 - 1973
HPI: 60.47
Rank: 851
1881 - 1959
HPI: 60.47
Rank: 852
1889 - 1977
HPI: 60.46
Rank: 853
1645 - 1718
HPI: 60.45
Rank: 854
1820 - 1872
HPI: 60.44
Rank: 855
1955 - Present
HPI: 60.44
Rank: 856
880 - 1000
HPI: 60.43
Rank: 857
Among writers born in United Kingdom, W. H. Auden ranks 103. Before him are Bernard Cornwell (1944), Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689), James Hadley Chase (1906), Jerome K. Jerome (1859), Edmund Spenser (1552), and Robert Graves (1895). After him are Rosamunde Pilcher (1924), Patrick White (1912), Allan Pinkerton (1819), Thomas Chatterton (1752), Elizabeth Gaskell (1810), and Lobsang Rampa (1910).
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.94
Rank: 97
1689 - 1762
HPI: 60.92
Rank: 98
1906 - 1985
HPI: 60.85
Rank: 99
1859 - 1927
HPI: 60.77
Rank: 100
1552 - 1599
HPI: 60.65
Rank: 101
1895 - 1985
HPI: 60.54
Rank: 102
1907 - 1973
HPI: 60.47
Rank: 103
1924 - 2019
HPI: 60.35
Rank: 104
1912 - 1990
HPI: 60.33
Rank: 105
1819 - 1884
HPI: 60.30
Rank: 106
1752 - 1770
HPI: 60.24
Rank: 107
1810 - 1865
HPI: 60.21
Rank: 108
1910 - 1981
HPI: 60.08
Rank: 109