age of anxiety
Itâs hard to believe that anyone but scholars of modern literature or paid critics have read W.H. Audenâs dramatic poem âThe Age of Anxietyâ all the way through, even though it won a Pulitzer Prize in 1948, the year after it was published. It is a difficult work â allusive, allegorical, at times surreal. But more to the point, itâs boring.