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The age of anxiety : a baroque eclogue
- Title
- The age of anxiety : a baroque eclogue / W.H. Auden ; edited by Alan Jacobs.
- Author
- Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973.
- Publication
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2011.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Jacobs, Alan, 1958-
- Description
- xlix, 144 pages; 24 cm.
- 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.
- Series Statement
- W.H. Auden : critical editions
- Uniform Title
- W.H. Auden--critical editions.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Poetry.
- Note
- Originally published: New York : Random House, 1947.
- An annotated critical edition of Auden's last, longest book-length poem.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Introduction -- The age of anxiety -- Appendix: two letters on metrical matters -- Textual notes.
- Call Number
- JFE 13-1050
- ISBN
- 9780691138152
- 069113815X
- LCCN
- 2010020433
- OCLC
- 631746979
- Author
- Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973.
- Title
- The age of anxiety : a baroque eclogue / W.H. Auden ; edited by Alan Jacobs.
- Imprint
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2011.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- W.H. Auden : critical editionsW.H. Auden--critical editions.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Added Author
- Jacobs, Alan, 1958-
- Research Call Number
- JFE 13-1050