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).
Epilogue For W. H. Auden in my life enjoyed myself so much as I did during those weeks when we were constantly together.' Jon Stallworthy comments that something of the flavour of the conversations between Auden and MacNeice on the Iceland trip ("And the don in me set forth... And the don in you replied...") is captured in "Epilogue for W. H. Auden'. The result of the Iceland trip was "Letters from Iceland", a travel book in prose and verse. Auden and MacNeice spent much of November and December 1936 together working on the book, and it was in this period that MacNeice wrote "Epilogue