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The Age of Anxiety (poem)


 

The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue is an eighty page poem in six parts by the British writer W.H. Auden. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1948.

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Poem - British - W.H. Auden - Pulitzer Prize for Poetry - 1948

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The poem deals, in eclogue form, with man's quest to find substance and identity in a shifting and increasingly industrialised world. Set in a bar in New York City, Auden uses four characters – Quant, Malin, Rosetta, and Emble – to explore and develop his themes.

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Eclogue - New York City

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It inspired a symphony by composer Leonard Bernstein, The Age of Anxiety (Symphony No. 2 for Piano and Orchestra).

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Symphony - Leonard Bernstein

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