The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue. Auden Copyrighted Material INTRODUCTION ThePoem The Age of A nxietybeginsinfearanddoubt,butthefourprotagonists findsomecomfortinsharingtheirdistress.Ineventhisaccidental andtemporarycommunitytherearisesthepossibility ofwhat Auden once called “local understanding.” Certain anxieties may be overcomenotbythealtering ofgeopoliticalconditionsbutbythecultivation of mutual sympathy—perhaps mutual love, even among those whohoursbeforehadbeenstrangers. The Age of AnxietyisW.H. Auden’slastbook­lengthpoem,hislongest poem, and almost certainly the least­read of his major works. (“It’sfrightfullylong,”hetoldhisfriendAlanAnsen.)Itwouldbeinterestingtoknowwhatfraction ofthosewhobeginreadingitpersist totheend. Thepoemisstrangeandoblique;itpursuesinahighly concentratedformmany of Auden’slong­termfascinations.Itsmeter imitatesmedievalalliterativeverse,which Audenhadbeendrawnto as an undergraduate when he attended J.R.R.

Tolkien’s lectures in Anglo­Saxonphilology,andwhichclearlyinfluencesthepoems ofhis earlytwenties. The Age of Anxietyislargelyapsychological,orpsychohistorical,poem,andthesewerethecategoriesinwhich Audenpreferredtothinkinhisearlyadulthood(includinghisundergraduate yearsatOxford,whenheenjoyedtherole ofconfidentialamateur analystforhisfriends). Thepoemalsoembraces Auden’sinterestin,amongotherthings, thearchetypaltheories ofCarlGustavJung,Jewishmysticism,English murdermysteries,andthelinguisticandculturaldifferencesbetween EnglandandAmerica.Woventhroughitishisnearlylifelongobsessionwiththepoeticandmythological“greenworld” Audenvariously calls Arcadia or Eden or simply the Good Place. Auden’s previous longpoemhadbeencalled“ TheSeaandtheMirror:ACommentary on Shakespeare’s The Tempest,“ and Shakespeare haunts this poem.

W.H.AUDEN.,Selected PoemsA.. EDWARD MENDELSON. VINTAGE BOOKS. A Division of Random House. As a strong moral pejorative; and the word seemed to apply to many of his own public. Age of Anxiety' (1944-46), celebrates the personal triumph of his faith. Download Auden Age Of Anxiety Pdf File. Auden - Wikipedia. Wystan Hugh Auden. Wystan Hugh Auden(1. The Age of Anxiety.

FURTHER READINGS ABOUT THE AUTHOR: BOOKS • Aisenberg, Katy, Ravishing Images: Ekphrasis in the Poetry and Prose of William Wordsworth, W. Auden, and Philip Larkin, P.

Lang (New York, NY), 1995. H., A Certain World: A Commonplace Book, Viking, 1970. H., In Solitude, for Company: Wynford Dore Program Exercises To Strengthen. W. Auden after 1940, Unpublished Prose and Recent Criticism, edited by Katharine Bucknell and Nicholas Jenkins, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 1995. W., The Later Auden, Rutgers University Press, 1970.

• Beach, Joseph Warren, The Making of the Auden Canon, University of Minnesota Press, 1957. G., The Poetic Art of W. Auden, Princeton University Press, 1965. • Bloom, Harold, Ringers in the Tower: Studies in Romantic Tradition, University of Chicago Press, 1971. • Bloomfield, B. Auden: A Bibliography, University Press of Virginia, 1964, 2nd edition, 1972.

Auden, Columbia University Press, 1970. • Bruce, Cicero, W. Auden's Moral Imagination, E. Mellen Press, 1998. • Bryant, Marsha, Auden and Documentary in the 1930s, University Press of Virginia, 1997.

• Buell, Frederick, W. Auden as a Social Poet, Cornell University Press, 1973.

• Callan, Edward, An Annotated Check-List of the Works of W. Swallow, 1958.

• Contemporary Literary Criticism, Gale (Detroit, MI), Volume 1, 1973, Volume 2, 1974, Volume 3, 1975, Volume 4, 1975, Volume 6, 1976, Volume 9, 1978, Volume 11, 1979, Volume 14, 1980, Volume 43, 1987. • Davenport-Hines, R. T., Auden, Pantheon (New York, NY), 1995. • Davidson, D., W.

Auden, Evans, 1970. • Dictionary of Literary Biography, Gale (Detroit, MI), Volume 10: Modern British Dramatists, 1940-45, 1982, Volume 20, British Poets, 1914-1945, 1983. • Everett, Barbara, Auden, Oliver Boyd, 1964. • Fuller, J., A Reader's Guide to W. Auden, Thames & Hudson, 1970. • Fuller, John, W. Auden: A Commentary, Princeton University Press, 1998. Htc Desire C Stock Firmware Download on this page.

• Greenberg, Herbert, Quest for the Necessary: W. Auden and the Dilemma of Divided Consciousness, Harvard University Press, 1969.

• Hoggart, Richard, Auden: An Introductory Essay, Yale University Press, 1951. • Izzo, David Garrett, Aldous Huxley, W.

Auden: On Language, Locust Hill Press, 1998. • Jacobs, Alan, What Became of Wystan?: Change and Continuity in Auden's Poetry, University of Arkansas Press, 1998.