The Age of Anxiety

Name: The Age of Anxiety
Author: W.H. Auden

by W.H. Auden

Modernist poem sequence exploring anxiety, consciousness, and human isolation

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W.H. Auden

Anglo-American poet whose long career and enormous range made him the central English-language poet of the mid-twentieth century. Musee des Beaux Arts and The Age of Anxiety are among his most celebrated works.

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