In this master s thesis on translation and poetry criticism, the main goal is to translate four poems by W. H. Auden (1907-1973) and to comment on the translations, revealing the translation strategies adopted. In this way, one portrait of important aspects of Auden s aesthetic project is sketched, considering questions of poetic form and the relations that his work establishes with the tradition of Western poetry. The poems translated reveal distinct phases of Auden s production and span a significant part of his life. The study begins with As I Walked Out One Evening and Musée des Beaux Arts, written and published in the late 1930s, when, in search of a new style, to escape the obscurity of his early poems, Auden experimented with popular forms of English poetry, such as the ballad, and with modern forms, such as free verse, accommodating them to his view of poetry. This is followed by The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue, one of Auden s major long poems, written in the manner of Old English verse during World War II and published in 1947. It closes with In Praise of Limestone, one of Auden s first Italian poems, composed in syllabic verse, written in 1948 and published in book form in 1951. Since some of the poems translated in this work have relatively well-established translations, these translations are also analyzed along the way. The method employed is based on poetry translation theory and practice of the brothers Haroldo and Augusto de Campos and Paulo Henriques Britto.