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The period after WWI was a rather anxious time in political and cultural history. WWI demonstrated that mankind could still be quite barbaric despite being quite advanced in science and...
In Germany and France, power was passing to the moderates and after five years of hostility and tension culmination in a kind of undeclared war in the Ruhr in 1923, Germany and France decided to give compromise and cooperation a try. Hope in Foreign Affairs, 1924-1929.
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 new world in the aftermath of WWI created an “age of anxiety” World War I was a staggering blow to Western civilization. Many people felt as if the world they knew had been turned upside down and they had little control to change things for the better. People saw themselves living in an age of continual crisis (until at least the early 1950s)
The Age of Anxiety, a poem by W.H. Auden, was first published in 1947 and received mixed reviews from critics. Some praised the poem for its exploration of the human condition in the aftermath of World War II, while others criticized it for being too dense and difficult to understand.
Political crises in the 1920s were followed by the Great Depression beginning in 1929 and then the road to World War II in the 1930s. The new world in the aftermath of WWI created an “age of anxiety”. World War I was a staggering blow to Western civilization.
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