A versatile, vigorous, and technically skilled poet, Auden ranks among the major literary figures of the 20th cent. Keywords: Archetypal, Critique, Irrational, Pathos, Skeptical. (Wystan Hugh Auden) ô´dn key, 190773, Anglo-American poet, b. This power of self-analysis is the highest manifestation of the sceptic poetic tradition of Thomas Hardy and W.B.Yeats. For the Time Being, a Christmas Oratorio (1945), The Age of Anxiety (1947. What really distinguishes the surrealistic mind of Thomas is a capacity for self-analysis, a capacity for objectifying, and subjecting to analytical scrutiny, his own experiences and feelings. This significantly expanded edition of W. Hence, a figurative study is undertaken to establish that the most remarkable advance in Thomas’s artistic discipline is marked in the defter handling of dramatic imagination and language. The obvious limitations of 18 Poems should not, however, make the readers ignore its real excellences, and the excellences are many and varied. Auden’s critique on Thomas as articulated in Another Time, The New Year Letter, For the Time Being, The Age of Anxiety, and in Nones endorses, on the whole till the death of Thomas (1953), the opinions of the preceeding years. Categorized in the areas of art, literature, and thought, we can see the 'Age of Anxiety' is not contained to the past, but reveals a human nature much like ours today, on a century-long delay. In Look Stranger!, he says that 18 Poems recording a sceptical theme, stands “wild” in its structure. The 'Age of Anxiety', from the years after the War to the start of the Second World War almost 20 years later, reveals the fear, disillusionment, confusion, and dismay that Europeans endured. Auden is, on the other hand, quite adverse. The poets of the thirties, Cecil Day Lewis, Stephen Spender, and Louis MacNeice, are equally effusive. The critics have also expressed their warm appreciation. Auden called the poem a baroque eclogue, and it is dense. Auden’s book-length poem The Age of Anxiety, which was published in 1947. Fraser, and Norman MacCaig become enthusiastic over Thomas’s poem, and they plan to bring out a book of verse based on 18 Poems. Stossel’s title is an echo of the title of W. The Apocalyptic poets, Henry Treece, Vernon Watkins, G.S.
The response of the Thomas circle is quick and unstinted. Literary taste has its twists and turns, and it is no wonder that Dylan Thomas’s 18 Poems appeal to the poets of the thirties and the forties in different ways.