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The Age of Anxiety (poem)
When it was first published in 1947, The Age of Anxiety-W. 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.
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The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue (1947; first UK edition, 1948) is a long poem in six parts by W. H. Auden, written mostly in a modern version of Anglo-Saxonalliterative verse.
The poem deals, in eclogue form, with man's quest to find substance and identity in a shifting and increasingly industrialized world. Set in a wartime bar in New York City, Auden uses four characters – Quant, Malin, Rosetta, and Emble – to explore and develop his themes.
The poem won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1948. It inspired a symphony by composer Leonard Bernstein, The Age of Anxiety (Symphony No. 2 for Piano and Orchestra) and a 1950 ballet by Jerome Robbins based on the symphony.
A new critical edition of the poem, edited by Alan Jacobs, was published by Princeton University Press in 2011.
'The Age of Anxiety' is also the title of the first chapter of The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts (1951).
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A recording of Auden's last reading, at the Palais Palffy, Vienna, 28 September 1973, has come into the Society's hands andmay be heard on this site.
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Auden's Prose, Volumes V and VI, containing his prose writings from 1963 through 1973, have been published by Princeton University Press. Details may be found on the web site of the press:Volume V andVolume VI.
Auden's televised 1971 reading (and updating) of 'The Unknown Citizen' has been posted here, thanks to the generosity of the producer.
An outbreak of forged signatures of Auden seems to have occurred during the past few years, and a number of them have been offered for sale, or have been sold. A few of them arenoted on this site.
A note on dubious quotations from Auden in a book by Jonah Lehrer titled Imagine has been added to an earlier page listing a few things Auden never wrote.
A highly accurate, thoroughly revised version of the Wikipedia.org entry on Auden is now available. This site strongly recommends that online researchers make reference to the archived version of the page, in the link above, rather than to current versions, which may be less accurate or may be subject to vandalism. (A page onWystanus Hugo Auden in the Latin-language Vicipedia may also be of interest.)
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See also some further notes that may be of interest.
The W. H. Auden Society commemorates the life and work of one of the greatest poets in the English language.
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W. H. Auden's Revising Process, a series of eleven articles by Yoshinari S. Yamada, first published in 1974-1990, is now available from this site as a single PDF file.
Auden's Revisions, by W. D. Quesenbery, is a book-length study that the author completed shortly before his death. Through the generosity of his daughter Whitney Quesenbery the entire book is available on this site in PDF format, together with a separate copyright notice.
A warning to potential buyers of Auden memorabilia: Three items in Auden's handwriting were offered for sale on eBay in March 2009; two of them are not exactly what the auction listings describe them as being, and potential bidders should beware. The item described as 'Very rare authentic W. H. Auden handwritten poem' is not a poem at all, but a partial pencil draft of the index of the first lines of the poems that Auden selected for inclusion in an anthology, The Faber Book of Modern American Verse, published in 1956; every line is the first line of one of the poems in the anthology, all written by other poets. The item described as 'Authentic W. H. Auden handwritten Polish Ballet notes' is a printed programme booklet with notes not written by Auden, but someone else who has not been identified; the lot also includes a three-by-five-inch index card with notes that are, however, in Auden's hand; the notes are a brief list of poems by the American poet William Vaughn Moody, evidently listed for possible inclusion in the same Faber Book of Modern American Verse. The item described as 'Authentic W. H. Auden Driver's License' is, however, accurately described, and is evidently Auden's driver's license, apparently issued in December 1968.
News that wasn't: The London newspaper The Independent splashed across its front page on 5 September 2007 the news that three 'lost' schoolboy poems by Auden had been rediscovered. These three unsigned poems were in fact known to researchers for many decades, and there seem to be no convincing reason to believe that Auden wrote any of them. It is of course not impossible that Auden was the author, but they could equally well have been written by almost any literate schoolboy of the period. Katherine Bucknell, the editor of Auden's Juvenilia, has argued in the Society'sNewsletter that one of the poems was written by Auden's friend Robert Medley. Probably no one will ever know who actually wrote these poems, and, as Auden wrote in 'Archaeology,' 'guessing is always / more fun than knowing.'
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A note on Reinaldo Javier Sanchez from Venezuela: The Society recently received an e-mail from Reinaldo Javier Sanchez, who describes himself as a professor of English at a university in Venezuela, asking for a copy of Auden's Collected Poems to sent to him by air mail; he writes that he needs it for a project that he has planned for his students. If other webmasters should receive a similar request, they may wish to read some earlier messages written by Prof. Javier Sanchez. Examples of such messages may be found here and here, and further messages from Prof. Javier Sanchez - who evidently teaches a wide range of subjects, is deeply committed to his students, is sometimes male and sometimes female, and has remained 25 years old from at least 2004 through 2009 - may be found through a web search. For some unknown reason, Prof. Javier Sanchez's name does not appear in thedirectory of the university in which he claims to teach.
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