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The period from the end of the 1940s through the 1960s was ubiquitously referred to in popular culture as “The Age of Anxiety.” Anxiety had multiple resonances: fear of nuclear annihilation, the pathological condition that mental health professionals treat, and the fear of non-being that existentialist thinkers (starting with Kierkegaard ...
In my book ( A History of Western Society ), this chapter ("The Age of Anxiety") is chapter 26, but on this website, it is chapter 28. Also, on this website, the headings for the chapter are just "The Search for Peace and Political Stability" and "The Great Depression 1929-1939." In my book, the headings are "Uncertainty in Modern Thought ...
The Age of Anxiety, a poem by W.H. Auden, was written in the aftermath of World War II, a time of great uncertainty and anxiety. The war had left the world in a state of shock and disbelief, and people were struggling to come to terms with the horrors they had witnessed.
(publ. Random House) 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
Age of Anxiety Time Period: 1914-1950. WWI changed the worldview of many, and the new world order caused severe anxiety. Those who had survived WWI were left with a pessimistic conclusion that they as individuals had little to no control over world events.
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Unlike the literary ecologues of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, however, The Age of Anxiety is an urban poem, in essence an ironic “antipastoral,”commenting on an age of...
