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).
1973 in film Globe Awards: Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival): Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival): U.S.A. unless stated A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Z U.S.A. unless stated 1973 in film The year 1973 in film involved some significant events. The top ten 1973 released films by box office gross in the United States and Canada are as follows: The highest-grossing 1973 films in countries outside of North America. The following table lists known worldwide gross revenue figures for several high-grossing films that originally released in 1973.