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AP European History Notes. Chapter 28: The Age of Anxiety. Next. The Search for Peace and Political Stability Germany and the Western Powers Under the Allies’ naval blockade and threat to extend military occupation from the Rhineland had Germany’s new government signed the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. The Age of Anxiety (1947), perhaps the finest of them all, tests Auden's ideas within the experience of modernity.--Lachlan MacKinnon, Times Literary Supplement. [M]agnificent . . . . [and] enormously rich in allusion, sound, and intellectual power. Chapter 35: THE AGE OF ANXIETY. The decades between the two world wars were neither peaceful nor prosperous. These were anxious, uncertain years. Old certainties were shaken; the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment lost their potency. After 1929, a global depression intensified the social and political unrest, and new extreme ideologies gained momentum. Common elements of this age of anxiety include: Disillusionment. The harsh realities of trench warfare shattered the illusions of many young intellectuals. The culture of the 1920s is characterized by uncertainty and experimentation. Old truths in science, art, and religion were challenged. In the Age of Anxiety. Panic, compulsions, phobias, and more. Pamela Wiegartz, Ph.D., is the Director of CBT Services and Training in the Department of Psychiatry at Brigham and Women's Hospital and on faculty at Harvard Medical School. 216 pp. | 6 x 9 | 1 halftone. When it was first published in 1947, The Age of Anxiety--W. H. Auden's last, longest, and most ambitious book-length poem--immediately struck a powerful chord, capturing the imagination of the cultural moment that it diagnosed and named. In the Age of Anxiety. Pamela Wiegartz, Ph.D., is the Director of CBT Services and Training in the Department of Psychiatry at Brigham and Women's Hospital and on faculty at Harvard Medical School. Kevin Gyoerkoe, Psy.D., is the co-author of 10 Simple Solutions to Worry as well as The Pregnancy and Postpartum Anxiety Workbook. It’s hard to believe that anyone but scholars of modern literature or paid critics have read W.H. Auden’s dramatic poem “The Age of Anxiety” all the way through, even though it won a Pulitzer Prize in 1948, the year after it was published. It is a difficult work — allusive, allegorical, at times surreal. But more to the point, it’s boring. Lecture 8. The Age of Anxiety: Europe in the 1920s (1) I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another. WH Auden's 'The Age of Anxiety'. It was both hailed as 'his best work to date' and damned as 'his one failure'. Leonard Bernstein's symphony, inspired by the poem, is the better work of art, argues Glyn Maxwell. Glyn Maxwell. Friday 9 April 2010 19.07 EDT First published on Friday 9 April 2010 19.07 EDT. The Age of Anxiety. The 20th century is called the age of Anxiety or the age of crisis. In this period the mentality of Europe changes. The most important event of this century is the world war one, that caused more deaths than all previous wars put together. Also, in this period many scientific theories destroyed many centuries of beliefs.
Auden’s dramatic poem “The Age of Anxiety” all the way through, even though it won a Pulitzer Prize in 1948, the year after it was published.