''Epistle to a Godson and other poems'' is a book of poems by W. H. Auden, published in 1972. This book was the last book of poems that Auden completed in his lifetime; its successor, ''

Thank You, Fog ''Thank You, Fog: Last Poems by W. H. Auden'' is a posthumous book of poems by W. H. Auden, published in 1974. The book contains poems written mostly in 1972 and 1973; after Auden's death in September 1973 it was prepared for publication by his ...

'' was left unfinished at his death. The poems included in the book were written mostly in 1968–1971. They include, in addition to the title poem, "Natural Linguistics", "Doggerel by a Senior Citizen", "Old People's Home", "Talking to Dogs", "Talking to Mice", and "Talking to Myself". The titular poem, first published in 1969 in the '' New York Review of Books'', is dedicated to

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, while the book as a whole is dedicated to Orlan Fox, "whom Auden had first met as an undergraduate at Columbia University in 1959". John Fuller, ''W. H. Auden: A Commentary'', 1998, London, 529

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