One of the greatest poets of the XX century, Wystan Hugh Auden was born in York on 21st of February 1907 in a middle-class family. Passionate about literature, he went to Oxford university where he founded a literacy circle and he considerably expanded the horizon of his intellectual interests.
The imagination of the contemporary traveler gets lost in the alleys, after crossing Piazza del Plebiscito, touching the Royal Palace, the San Carlo Theater, and Via Toledo, aiming here and there at the surprising green patches of Capodimonte, the vegetable gardens and the Posillipine parks and the coastal cliffs of yellow tuff.
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