Wystan Hugh Auden, one of the greatest poets and essayists of the century, was born in York, England, in 1907 he published his first book, Poems, in 1930 Look, Stranger, 1936, he became the British fascist archetype. In late 1938, after having traveled through Spain, Iceland and China, he moved to the United States, taking American citizenship from 1946 published several books of poems, including highlights For the Time Being (1944) , The Age of Anxiety (1947) and the shields of Achilles (1955 Author of plays, libretti, opera and memoirs, he granted the privileges and Bollinger Pulitzer, among other awards.). Its main trials are collected and dyer's hand in Shakespeare's World, both published by Adriana Hidalgo. He spent the latter part of his life between his apartment in New York, his professorship at Oxford and a house in an Austrian village. He died in Vienna in 1973