W.H. Auden
Poet (1907 -1973)
Lived in Brooklyn Heights from 1939 to 1941,
From 1939 to 1940 on the top floor of this house,
where he wrote "New Year Letter"
"And love illuminates again
the city and the lion's den
the world's great rage, the travel of young men."
The W.H. Auden Society, June 25, 1995