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T. S. Eliot: Eliot became a devout member of the Church of England and he described himself as classicist in literature, royalist in politics, and Anglo-Catholic in religion a change he was not supposed to made
William Carlos Williams: He stay in America and didn't go to Europe. Williams wanted his poetry to be very American, made out of the American language, reflecting American sights and sounds and ways of life.
Ezra Pound: was the driving force behind Modernist literature, he seek new discoveries and innovations in the art of poetry
Countee Cullen: Cullen was a central figure in New York's black literary circles at the time of the Harlem Renaissance.
The Lost Generation
The Lost Generation was a group of American writters who came of age during World War I. The generation was "lost" in the sense that inherited values were no longer relevant in the postwar world.
Modernist Literature
Modernist Literature was a a dominant trend in American literature between WW1 and WW2. Modernist literature highlighted innovation in the form of language of poetry and prose.
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1912: Atlantic Ocean, Titanic sinks on its maiden voyage.
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1917: Russia, revolution begins; Bolsheviks seize power.
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1923: Germany, Adolph Hitler writes Mein Kampf while in jail.
1925: F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby.