The Age of Anxiety

The Age of Anxiety

"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. Set in a wartime bar in New York City, Auden uses four characters – Quant, Malin, Rosetta, and Emble – to explore and develop his themes.

The poem won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1948. It inspired a symphony by composer Leonard Bernstein, "The Age of Anxiety (Symphony No. 2 for Piano and Orchestra)" and a 1950 ballet by Jerome Robbins based on the symphony.

References

*John Fuller, "W. H. Auden: A Commentary" (1999)
*Edward Mendelson, "Later Auden" (1999)

External links

[http://audensociety.org The W. H. Auden Society]


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