The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue

by W.H. Auden and W.H. Auden

Book Overview

The first critical edition of a poem that named an era

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069113815X
• ISBN13: 9780691138152
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.3"