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