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, City Without Walls, Moralities, Prologue at Sixty, Anthem, and The Three Companions.
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.