Ages of Anxiety: Auden Reading Jung in Times of War

by Craig E. Stephenson

Craig E. Stephenson's Ages of Anxiety examines how W. H. Auden in his Pulitzer Prize winning poem, The Age of Anxiety, used C. G. Jung's psychological types to structure and explore his responses to war and the rise of fascism.

This newly revised edition of Stephenson's 2015 Z rich Lecture Series tracks Auden's notion of the poet's responsibilities and of the importance of the symbolic life in a time of conflict. The book tracks...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1041030630
• ISBN13: 9781041030638
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 154 Pages