W. H. Auden to spend his summers with Auden in Austria. In 1972, Auden moved his winter home from New York to Oxford, where his old college, Christ Church, offered him a cottage, while he continued to spend summers in Austria. He died in Vienna in 1973, a few hours after giving a reading of his poems at the Austrian Society for Literature; his death occurred at the Altenburgerhof Hotel where he was staying overnight before his intended return to Oxford the next day. He was buried in Kirchstetten. Auden published about four hundred poems, including seven long poems (two of them book-length).
Albert K. Stevens Arbor to experience a more engaging intellectual environment, a move that led to A.K.'s academic career at the University. Angelyn became a graduate student in philosophy at Michigan during Professor Stevens' early years in the University's English Department. The couple started a lifetime friendship with the Anglo-American poet W. H. Auden when he was a visiting instructor at the University in the early 1940s. Auden dedicated the poem "Mundus Et Infans" to the couple. When Auden became a U.S. citizen, Stevens was his sponsor. Stevens and his wife died together in an automobile accident in September, 1984. They were survived