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The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue was first published in 1947 by Random House. This book is a long poem written in six parts, the story deals 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 centers around four characters - Quant, Malin, Rosetta, and Emble - to explore and develop his themes.

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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 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.

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"Fascinating and hair-raising."--Leonard Bernstein

"[One of] Auden's outstanding American works."--Stephen Spender

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The first edition of The Age of Anxiety was published in New York by Random House in 1947. There were 3500 copies in the original printing. Original green boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Top edge red.

First UK Edition published in London by Faber & Faber, 1948. Faber issued this first printing in the UK of 3,000 copies. Features yellow cloth with gilt lettering to the spine.

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Title The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue
Author W. H. Auden; Alan Jacobs (Editor)
Binding Hardback
Edition 1st Edition & Fi
Pages 200
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Princeton University Press, Princeton
Publication date 2011
Features Annotated, Bibliography
ISBN 9780691138152 / 069113815X
Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
Dimensions 9.4 x 6.1 x 1 in (23.88 x 15.49 x 2.54 cm)
Themes
- Cultural Region: British
Category Poetry
Library of Congress subjects Poetry, Anxiety
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2010020433
Dewey Decimal Code 821.914

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About the author

Alan Jacobs is the Clyde S. Kilby Professor of English at Wheaton College in Illinois. His books include Original Sin: A Cultural History, The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis, and What Became of Wystan: Change and Continuity in Auden's Poetry.

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