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).
Awakenings (book) the British television programme "Discovery". It was also made into a 1990 Oscar-nominated film, "Awakenings" starring Robert De Niro and Robin Williams. The 1976 edition of the book is dedicated to the memory of poet W. H. Auden, and bears an extract from Auden's 1969 poem "The Art of Healing": Prior to his 1973 death, Auden himself wrote: "Have read the book and think it a masterpiece". In 1974 the book won the Hawthornden Prize. Awakenings (book) Awakenings is a 1973 non-fiction book by Oliver Sacks. It recounts the life histories of those who had been victims of the 1920s