The Unknown Citizen

Auden, W. H. "The Unknown Citizen" (1940). In The Collected Poetry of W. H. Auden. New York: Random House, 1945. Frequently rpt., including in A. O. Lewis, Of Men and Machines, q.v. under Anthologies.

This poem ironically celebrates "the Modern Man" in a modern state: complacent, compliant, conforming, and unfree.

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