Wystan Hugh (W.H.) Auden (1907-73) was one of the most loved and influential poets of the twentieth century. Born into a conventional Anglo-Catholic family, his early religious beliefs gave way to left-wing ideology and he visited Spain in support of the anti-Fascist movement in the Civil War there and China in 1938 during the war which ultimately the Chinese Communist Party would win was taking place.
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