![]() ![]() ![]() It is the Atlantic, presumably, but in which direction is he so pensively looking? Is he on one of Fire Island’s gay beaches? Or is his only female lover (and model for one of the characters in this book) just out of sight? Perhaps he is gazing towards his lost England: “ O Patria, patria! Quanto mi costi!” This anguished cry from Verdi’s Aida (“O my country, my country! What you cost me!”) prefaces part three of The Age of Anxiety. ON THE COVER of this new edition of The Age of Anxiety(first published in 1946), a slender WH Auden, trousers bunched to the knees, feet bare, cigarette in hand, stands on a strand as the surf rolls in or out. POETRY: JOHN MONTAGUEreviews The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue By WH Auden Edited by Alan Jacobs Princeton University Press, 200pp. ![]()
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