THE AGE OF ANXIETY. A Baroque Eclogue.

First UK edition, first printing. Original yellow cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in dustwrapper. A very near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout. There are a few light spots to the cloth. Complete with the notably sharp, lightly toned to the spine, with a touch of rubbing to spine tips and corners. Not price-clipped (8s 6d net to the front flap). A particularly attractive copy.

Auden's 'Baroque Eclogue', the last of an extraordinary series of long poems composed during the 1940s, won the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Leonard Bernstein, who based his second symphony on the poem, described it as "one of the most shattering examples of pure virtuosity in the history of English poetry". 3000 copies of the first UK edition were printed. The US edition had been published the previous year. (Bloomfield & Mendelson A29b).