{"product_id":"the-age-of-anxiety-w-h-auden-9780691138152","title":"The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first critical edition of a poem that named an era\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen it was first published in 1947, \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Anxiety\u003c\/i\u003e--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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e W. H. Auden\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 069113815X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691138152\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/27\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.97lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.34h x 6.46w x 0.87d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2011","brand":"W. H. Auden","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44044789874943,"sku":"9780691138152","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a28a4b97-3a06-41ac-a229-e5aaeb4e1c3d.jpg?v=1684974906","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-age-of-anxiety-w-h-auden-9780691138152","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}