| Timeline |
| 1907 |
Born 21 February, Yorkshire England |
| 1925 |
Enters Christ Church College, University of Oxford |
| 1928 |
Studies in Germany for a year |
| 1930 |
Paid on Both Sides, short verse play, is published in T.S.Eliot's periodical The Criterion |
| 1930 |
Poems published |
| 1930s |
Collaborates with Christopher Isherwood on several plays
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| 1935 |
Marries Thomas Mann's daughter Erika Mann (to allow her a British passport) |
| 1936 |
Look Stranger! published |
| 1937 |
On This Island published |
| 1937 |
Receives King George's Gold Medal for Poetry |
| 1937 |
Serves in the Spanish Civil War driving an ambulance |
| 1938 |
Travels to China |
| 1939 |
Journey to a War published |
| 1939 |
Settles in the United States |
| 1940 |
Another Time published |
| 1940 |
Another Time published |
| 1940 |
Member of the editorial board of Decision magazine |
| 1944 |
For the Time Being published |
| 1944 |
The Sea and the Mirror published |
| 1946 |
Becomes U.S. citizen |
| 1946 |
Granted temporary status as a Major when he goes to Germany with the U.S. army to study the psychological effects of bombing on civilians |
| 1947 |
The Age of Anxiety wins Pulitzer Prize |
| 1947 |
Editor of the Yale Series of Young Poets until 1947 |
| 1951 |
Writes libretto for Stravinsky's Rake's Progress |
| 1954 |
Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets until 1973 |
| 1954 |
Receives the Bollingen Poetry Prize |
| 1956 |
Professor of Poetry at Oxford until 1961 |
| 1965 |
About the House published |
| 1967 |
Receives National Medal for Literature |
| 1972 |
Returns to Oxford as an honorary fellow |
| 1973 |
Dies 29 September of a heart attack, in Vienna Austria |
