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Typescript prepared by a collector and signed by the poet at the conclusion. Entitled "The Age of Anxiety, A Baroque Ecologue to John Betjeman." This poem won for Auden the Pulitzer Prize in 1948. It has been described in The Oxford Companion to American Literature as an "ironic idyl, set in a cheap New York bar, on man's isolated condition, intensified in an era without tradition or belief."

101 p. ; 28 x 21 cm.

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