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Brass band and Oxbridge mourners at WH Auden’s funeral – archive, 5 Oct 1973

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5 October 1973: The English-American poet is laid to rest in a small Austrian village

Kirchstetten, October 4
Wystan Hugh Auden was buried here today in the little Roman Catholic churchyard in the village of Kirchstetten, where he had spent the last 16 summers of his life.

Once an enfant terrible of English letters, in the 1930s the committed anti-fascist voice of the Left, and two decades later Professor of Poetry at Oxford, he was laid to rest in a corner of Lower Austria where the Vienna Woods peter out into rolling fields and orchards.

Related: Unseen WH Auden diary sheds light on famous poem and personal life

Related: Mr Auden's anthology - review of Poets of the English Language:From the archive, 2 September 1952:

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