In his later years Auden wrote City Without Walls, and Many Other Poems (1969), Epistle to a Godson, and Other Poems (1972), and the posthumous Thank You, Fog: Last Poems (1974). While at the time of their publication they received mixed reviews that averred a lessening of talent in the great poet, these collections have since been perceived in more favorable terms.Īuden won the National Medal for literature in 1967, with the award explaining that Auden’s poetry “has illuminated our lives and times with grace, wit and vitality.
His work, branded by the moral and ideological fires of our age, breathes with eloquence, perception and intellectual power.” After his death in 1973, Joseph Brodsky wrote that his was “the greatest mind of the twentieth century.” Next Section W. Auden: Poems Summary Buy Study Guide How To Cite in MLA Format Osborne, Kristen.
