The Rake's Progress
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The Rake's Progress is an English-language opera from 1951 in three acts and an epilogue by Igor Stravinsky. The libretto, written by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, is based loosely on the eight pai
The composer
Hogarth's third painting, showing Tom experiencing a brothel in London
Tom in Bedlam, comforted only by Sarah Young (Anne in the opera) – the last of Hogarth's paintings.
W. H. Auden
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Wystan Hugh Auden was a British-American poet. Auden's poetry is noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and its variety in tone, f
The Rake's Progress
…The Rake's Progress is an English-language opera from 1951 in three acts and an epilogue by Igor Stravinsky. The libretto, written by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, is based loosely on the eight paintings and engravings A Rake's Progress (1733–1735) of William Hogarth, which Stravinsky had seen…
Auden in 1939
Auden's birthplace in York
Auden's School at Hindhead in Surrey
Christopher Isherwood (left) and W. H. Auden (right) photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 6 February 1939