Auden remembered on centenary of birth

February 28, 2007 In York taxi drivers have adopted the poet for a Culture Cab scheme, in which drivers memorise Auden’s work to make visitors feel welcome to the city where he was born. It is an initiative typical of what academics call the “Four Weddings phenomenon”, which has given Auden – or a small number of his 400-plus poems – a mass audience, while specialist work dwindles on his life and verse.