Forgotten Ground Regained
W.H. Auden
W..H. Auden was a noted poet, ranked with W.B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot as one of the most important British poets of the 20th century. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1947 for his long alliterative poem, Age of Anxiety.
Other alliterative verse by Auden includes, "The Wanderer", a loose translation of the Old English poem, and the following original poems:
- "The Three Companions", "Airman's Alphabet", and "Beethameer, Beethameer" appeared in Auden's collection, The Orators (1932).
- "Moralities", "City without Walls", and "Prologue at Sixty" appeared in Auden's collection, City without Walls and Other Poems (1969)
- "Anthem" appeared in Auden's collection, Epistle to a Godson and Other Poems (1969).
Two excerpts from Age of Anxiety, "Rosetta's Vision" and a selection from Rosa's final soliloquy, are included in Dennis Wise's critical anthology of modern alliterative verse.
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