W. H. Auden, an Anglo-American poet and essayist, won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for his long poem The Age of Anxiety.
Nonfiction
Winter 1964
A Symposium on W. H. Auden’s “A Change of Air”
A Change of Air Corns, heartburn, sinus headaches, such minor ailments Tell of estrangement between your name and you, Suggest a change of air: heed them, but let The modesty […]
Nonfiction
Spring 1948
Yeats as an Example
One drawback, and not the least, of practising any art is that it becomes very difficult to enjoy the works of one’s fellow artists, living or dead, simply for their […]
Poetry
Autumn 1947
The Duet
All winter long the huge sad lady Sang to her warm house of the heart betrayed:— Love lies delirious and a-dying; The purlieus are shaken by his sharp cry. But back […]
Poetry
Winter 1940
For Sigmund Freud
When there are so many we shall have to mourn, When grief has been made so public, and exposed To the critique of a whole epoch The frailty of our conscience […]
Drama
Spring 1946
The Caucasian Circle of Chalk
From the German. {EDITORS’ NOTE—The new Brecht play is again in Epic Theatre, the form originated by this playwright. In the Prologue we are in the Caucasus at that […]
Weekend Reads
Yeats as an Example
One drawback, and not the least, of practicing any art is that it becomes very difficult to enjoy the works of one’s fellow artists, living or dead, simply for their […]