Age Of Anxiety
A Baroque Eclogue
W H AUDEN
Princeton Uni. Press, Poetry
Hardcover, Ed: 01, 2011, 9780691138152
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Published in 1947, The Age of Anxiety is W. H. Auden’s last, longest, and most ambitious book-length poem. Beginning as a conversation among four strangers in a barroom on New York’s Third Avenue, Auden’s analysis of Western culture during the Second World War won the Pulitzer Prize and inspired a symphony by Leonard Bernstein as well as a ballet by Jerome Robbins. This is the first annotated, critical edition of the poem, and Alan Jacobs’s introduction and thorough annotations help to appreciate the full richness of a poem that deserves a central place in the canon of 20th century poetry.