52 years ago today, on September 29, 1973 (September 4, 1973 in the lunar calendar), the British poet Auden died in Vienna. On September 29, 1973, the British poet W-H-Auden died in Vienna. Oden was born in Yorkshire in 1907. He began writing poetry in 1922. In 1925, he entered Oxford University to study literature. In the 1930s, he became a representative of British new poetry with his first "Poetry Collection"; he was a poet known as the "Auden School" or "Auden Generation" and the leader of young left-wing writers in Britain. In 1936, he published his masterpiece poetry collection "Look, Strangers". In 1937, he went to Madrid to support the Spanish people's anti-fascist struggle and published the long poem "Spain". Visiting China the following year. Co-authored "Journey to the Battlefield" with Yi Xiu Wude. He became an American citizen in 1946. His later works have a strong religious color. The main poems include "The Shield of Achilles","Salute to Goddess Cleo","In the House", and "The City Without Walls". Auden is regarded as an important British poet after Yeats and Eliot. In his later years, he often lived in rural New York and Austria. He was awarded the Bolingen Poetry Prize in 1953 and the National Medal of Literature in 1967. He died of illness in Vienna on September 29, 1973. Comment: Giant of English Poetry of the 20th Century