Auden in the Age of Anxiety
A recent BBC programme on WH
Auden sent me back to his poems, and to the biography by Humphrey Carpenter.
The programme sought to bring Auden’s poetic themes to bear on our “Age of
Anxiety” (so labelled by the programme’s title). Auden’s own Age of Anxiety
was, of course, the 1930s, when Europe and other parts of the world once more
lurched towards global war.
