Bibliograph

The age of anxiety, a baroque eclogue, W.H. Auden ; edited by Alan Jacobs

Type

Label

The age of anxiety, a baroque eclogue, W.H. Auden ; edited by Alan Jacobs

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Index

no index present

Literary Form

poetry

Main title

The age of anxiety

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

631746979

Responsibility statement

W.H. Auden ; edited by Alan Jacobs

Series statement

W.H. Auden : critical editions

Sub title

a baroque eclogue

Summary

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. 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. Yet reviews of the poem were sharply divided, and today, despite its continuing fame, it is unjustly neglected by readers. This volume - the first annotated, critical edition of the poem- introduces this important work to a new generation of readers by putting it in historical and biographical context and elucidating its difficulties. Alan Jacobs's introduction and thorough annotations help today's readers understand and appreciate the full richness of a poem that contains some of Auden's most powerful and beautiful verse, and that still deserves a central place in the canon of twentieth-century poetry. -- Book Jacket

Table Of Contents

Introduction -- The age of anxiety -- Appendix: two letters on metrical matters -- Textual notes

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