Wystan Hugh Auden

Academic Graffiti is a book of clerihews by W. H. Auden and illustrations by Filippo Sanjust. It was published in 1971. Auden began writing in 1950 the short comic poems on literary and historical figures that he would later collect in Academic Graffiti. A selection of these clerihews appeared in his 1960 book Homage …

A Certain World: A Commonplace Book, by W. H. Auden, is a book containing quotations selected by Auden with his commentary, arranged in an alphabetical sequence of topics from "Accedie" to "Writing". It was published in 1970. Auden described the book as the closest he would ever come to writing an autobiography; it …