As I Walked Out One Evening Resources

Here's a great Auden biography from the good folks The Poetry Foundation.

Browse here for Auden articles, additional poems, podcasts and more. Apologies if you go down a serious poetry rabbit hole.

Need some inspiration? W.H. recalls when he first decided to become a poet in this interview excerpt.

"As I Walked Out…" from the horse's mouth.

One poetry super-star reading another. Which reading of "As I Walked Out…" do you prefer, Auden's or Thomas's?

We're gonna go out on a limb here and say he had a smoking habit. (We dare you to perform a Google Image search and find a shot of him without one.)

A fantastic interview from The Paris Review by Michael Newman that gives you a real sense of the poet's personality.

Writer Adam Gopnik looks at Auden's place in poetry today.

Here's the book that "As I Walked Out…" first appeared in.

And here's the book that won W.H. his Pulitzer Prize—The Age of Anxiety.

W.H contributed a poem, "Night Mail," to this 1936 documentary. You probably aren't going to find this one on Netflix.

Here's a famous Auden poem, "Funeral Blues" in the Oscar nominated movie Four Weddings and a Funeral.