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).
W. H. Auden 1939", became known to a much wider public than during his lifetime through films, broadcasts, and popular media. The first full-length study of Auden was Richard Hoggart's "Auden: An Introductory Essay" (1951), which concluded that "Auden's work, then, is a civilising force." It was followed by Joseph Warren Beach's "The Making of the Auden Canon" (1957), a disapproving account of Auden's revisions of his earlier work. Auden was one of three candidates recommended by the Nobel Committee to the Swedish Academy for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1963 and 1965 and six recommended for the 1964 prize. By the