Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good pass. A few days later you printed the logically curious effort of W. W. du B. and W. in which you were called fascists. It seems reasonable enough not to praise the CRIMSON, but this of Wilb, Wilcx, Whsde, and du Bou, will, in the words of another age, never...
...Age of Reason frequently attempts to shock the reader with pointless vulgarity (". . .a faint, sour reek of vomit came from her delicate mouth. Mathieu inhaled it ecstatically"). Existentialists may deny that such scenes are introduced for sensationalism's sake, but they have not explained why it is necessary to expound their doctrine solely from a worm's eye view of life. What one of the characters calls "the freemasonry of the urinal" will seem, to many readers, an accurate description of Sartre's own books...
...AGE OF ANXIETY (138 pp.)-W. H. Auden-Random House...
...Poet Wystan Hugh Auden as an Englishman in exile, he has been a U.S. citizen since May 1946. As a U.S. man of letters, Auden at 40-Old Oxonian, old leftist intellectual, Wandervogel, versifier extraordinary, theological lyricist-is a figure of great oddity, and of considerable importance. The Age of Anxiety, subtitled "A Baroque Eclogue," glitters with evidence of both...
...returned to the earliest tradition of English poetry-Anglo-Saxon-for a terseness and toughness that his own poems have lacked since the '30s. Incidental stunts include a dream song in the style of Finnegans Wake and an eight-line Drottkvaet, a complex Scandinavian verse form. But The Age of Anxiety is the best knit of Auden's longer works; his Bright Ideas, which have always had a way of stealing the show, this time wait for their cues. For the first time, too, Auden has created characters who are not only types but individuals...