W. H. Auden home on Lordswood Road, Birmingham; in the chapel of Christ Church, Oxford; on the site of his apartment at 1 Montague Terrace, Brooklyn Heights; at his apartment in 77 St. Marks Place, New York (damaged and now removed) and at the site of his death at Walfischgasse 5 in Vienna; in his house in Kirchstetten, his study is open to the public upon request. The following list includes only the books of poems and essays that Auden prepared during his lifetime; for a more complete list, including other works and posthumous editions, see W. H. Auden bibliography. In the list
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