The age of anxiety
Subtitle: a baroque eclogue
By: W.H. Auden ; edited by Alan Jacobs
Contributors: Jacobs, Alan, 1958-
Series: W.H. Auden : critical editions
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780691138152
Description: 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.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Random House, 1947.

An annotated critical edition of Auden's last, longest book-length poem.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The age of anxiety; title: Appendix: two letters on metrical matters; title: Textual notes.