Wystan Hugh Auden was born in York, North Yorkshire, as the son of George Augustus Auden, a distinguished physician, and Rosalie (Bicknell) Auden. Solihull, in the West Midlands, where Auden grew up, remained important to him as a poet. Auden was educated at St. Edmund's Hindhood and then at Gresham's School, Holt, Norfolk. In 1925 he entered Christ Church, Oxford. Auden's studies and writing progressed without much success: he obtained a disappointing third-class degree in English. And his first collection of poems was rejected by TS Eliot at Faber & Faber. At one point during his undergraduate years, he considered becoming a biologist. From 1928 to 1929 he lived in Berlin, where he enjoyed the sexually liberal atmosphere, and was introduced to the psychological theories of Homer Lane. After returning to England, Auden taught at a preparatory school, in 1930 privately in London, at Larchfield Academy. , a boys' school in Helensburgh (Scotland) and at Downs School, Colwall, Herefordshire in 1932-35. He was a staff member of the GPO's film unit (1935-36), making documentaries such as "Night Mail" (1935). The music for this film was provided by Benjamin Brittein, with whom Auden collaborated on the song cycle “Our Hunting Fathers” and the unsuccessful folk opera “Paul Bunyan.” In 1936, Auden traveled to Iceland with Louis MacNeice - Auden believed himself to be of Icelandic descent. Auden first gained attention in 1930 when his short verse play "Paid on Both Sides" was published in TS Eliot's periodical The Criterion. The same year appeared Auden's POEMS, his first commercially published book, in which he carefully avoided Yeatsian romantic expression – the poems were short, untitled and slightly enigmatic. Auden quickly became famous as a left-wing intellectual. He is interested in Marx and Freud and writes with passion on social problems, among others in LOOK, STRANGER! (1936). However, in 1962 he argued that it was better to separate art and politics, stating in his essay "The Poet and the City" that "all political theories which, like Plato, are based on analogies drawn from the artistic making are linked, if they are put into practice. practice, to transform into tyrannies. » Compressed figures of speech, direct statement and musical effect characterized ON THIS ISLAND (1937) and ANOTHER TIME (1940). By the late 1930s, Auden's poems were perhaps less politically radical; suffering and injustice are not dismissed as part of ordinary life. The latest works of this decade amazed readers with their light comic tone and domestic character..