Auden included Stifter in his poem "Academic Graffiti" as one of the celebrities, literary and otherwise, captured in a clerihew: Adalbert Stifter / Was no weight-lifter: / He would hire old lags / To carry his bags.
Auden l-a inclus pe Stifter în poemul său „Academic Graffiti”, ca una dintre celebritățile literare descrise într-un poem  clerihew: „Adalbert Stifter / Was no weight-lifter: / He would hire old lags / To carry his bags”.