W. H. Auden

When it was first published in 1947 'The Age of Anxiety', W H Auden's last, longest, and most ambitious poem, immediately struck a powerful chord, capturing the imagination of the cultural moment that it diagnosed and named. This 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.

This poetry selection was chosen by Edward Mendelson and contains the original versions of some poems that W.H. Auden later revised as his political and literary attitudes evolved.