Thread by @dean_frey

Remembering W. H. Auden on his birthday 🎂
📷 George Platt Lynes
@BeineckeLibrary
"Given poetry’s almost total isolation from public discourse today, there’s something deeply appealing about Auden’s quest to establish a poetry of public intimacy."
- Meghan O'Rourke

W. H. Auden by Yousuf Karsh, 1972
Karsh remembered this last session with Auden, in Stephen Spender's garden:
"Come soon, come soon," he invited, but I knew I would never see him again.

W. H. Auden at El Teatro Cafe in Venice
📷 Ruth Orkin, 1951

W.H. Auden by Erich Auerbach, 1961
"All that we are not stares back at what we are."

W. H. Auden by Cecil Beaton for Vogue, 1963

The Faber Poets by Mark Gerson, 1960
Louis MacNeice
Ted Hughes
T. S. Eliot
W.H. Auden
Stephen Spender
@NPGLondon
"With most categories of books you are aiming to make as much money as possible, with poetry you are aiming to lose as little as possible."
- T. S. Eliot

W. H. Auden, Maria Huxley & Edith Sitwell by George Silk, 1953

W.H. Auden at his desk
📷 Jerry Cooke for Life, 1946

Another remarkable portrait of W. H. Auden by Cecil Beaton
bromide print, 1967
@NPGLondon

W. H. Auden by Irving Penn, 1947
@NPGLondon
A rare portrait of Auden that doesn't focus on his "lived-in" face.

Christopher Isherwood & W. H. Auden in Central Park, 1938
📷 Louise Dahl-Wolfe

A remarkable portrait of W. H. Auden taken by Richard Avedon in St. Mark's Place in Manhattan in 1960.
Read about this photo in Geoff Dyer's essay "On Avedon":
threepennyreview.com/samples/dyer_f…