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The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue (1947; first UK edition, 1948) is a long poem in six parts by W. H. Auden, written mostly in a modern version of Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse. The poem deals, in eclogue form, with man's quest to find substance and identity in a shifting and increasingly industrialized world.
- W. H. Auden
- 1948
The Age of Anxiety, poem by W.H. Auden, published in 1947. Described as a “baroque eclogue ,” the poem was the last of Auden’s long poems; it won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1948. The poem highlights human isolation, a condition magnified by the lack of tradition or religious belief in the modern age. The setting is nighttime at a ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Nov 15, 2010 · The age of anxiety, a baroque eclogue. by. Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973. Publication date. 1947. Topics. Poetry. Publisher. New York, Random House.
Feb 27, 2011 · Download Cover. Overview. Author (s) Praise. When it was first published in 1947, The Age of Anxiety —W. H. Auden’s last, longest, and most ambitious book-length poem—immediately struck a powerful chord, capturing the imagination of the cultural moment that it diagnosed and named.
Complete summary of W. H. Auden's The Age of Anxiety. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of The Age of Anxiety.
Auden wrote The Age of Anxiety right after World War II. Its setting recalls “September 1, 1939,” the poem he wrote on the outbreak of that war, which begins. I sit in one of the divesOn...
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W.H. Auden, Alan Jacobs (Editor) 4.03. 319 ratings54 reviews. The first critical edition of a poem that named an era. When it was first published in 1947, The Age of Anxiety ―W. H. Auden's last, longest, and most ambitious book-length poem―immediately struck a powerful chord, capturing the imagination of the cultural moment that it ...
