We mourn the passing of British-American poet Wystan Hugh Auden, who passed away on September 29, 1973, at the age of 66. Auden, born in York, England, in 1907, changed the landscape of modern poetic writing. Auden acquired fame quickly after being published when still in his 20s. His 1933 collection Look, Stranger! brought him international fame. Auden's later works – such as The Sea and the Mirror, For The Time Being, and the operas Paul Bunyan and The Rake's Progress – cemented his reputation as an icon. Known for his witticisms, his work defies categorization. He moved to Austria in the 1930s and the United States in the 1940s, where he taught extensively at universities and lectured at the Library of Congress. Auden was awarded a wide array of honors, including a Pulitzer Prize and a National Medal for Literature, in addition to the named chair professorship at Oxford University. He will be greatly missed and remembered for his prolific output and diverse body of work.