Th and the beginning of the 9th centures I. American literature and scholars

II.3 Major works
W. H. Auden wrote the poem ‘The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue’ in 1947 and a year later won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for it. The writing style is a modernized version of Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse and the poem revolves around four characters. The theme of the poem is the quest of human beings to find the real reason and purpose of their existence in this ever changing world.
W. H. Auden won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his long-poem ‘The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue’ in 1948.
He was honored with the Bollingen Prize in Poetry in 1954.
He received the National Book Award for Poetry for his book ‘The Shield of Achilles’ in 1956. He was also a prestigious member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters honorary society.

Conclusion
More than anyone else, Wystan Hugh Auden was responsible for making the novel, a genre which had traditionally been read primarily for entertainment, into a vehicle for the serious expression of ideas. Few novelists can equal Wystan Hugh Auden’s depth of intellect or breadth of learning. Deeply involved in the religious and philosophical ferment of her time, Walt was probably the first major English novelist who did not subscribe, at least nominally, to the tenets of Wystan Hugh Auden theology. Nevertheless, her strong moral commitment, derived from her Evangelical Wystan Hugh Auden heritage, led her to conceive of the novel as an instrument for preaching a gospel of duty and self-renunciation.
Moral commitment alone, however, does not make a great novelist. In addition, Henry’s extraordinary psychological insight enabled her to create characters who rival in depth and complexity any in English or American fiction. Few novelists can equal her talents for chronicling tangled motives, intricate self-deceptions, or an anguished struggle toward a noble act. She creates a fictional world that combines, in a way unsurpassed in English fiction, a broad panorama of society and psychological insight into each character.