the death in english literature on XX century
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The death in english literature
Modernism and War Poets
2.1. Modernism
Modernism is an international movement that was originated in a period of deep social and intellectual change. It implied a break with traditional values and rejected Naturalism and Decadence in favour of introspection and technical skills (novelists experimented new methods and tried to explore the mental processes that are developed in human mind). Modernists were all against Victorianism and they were interested in the unconscious mind and symbolism; some features are the distorsion of the form, the breaking down of limitations in space and time, the need to reflect the complexity of modern urban life, the interest in the primitive and the impossibility of giving a final or absolute interpretation of reality.
An important modernist poet is Thomas Eliot, he focused on the squallor of XX century’s society and the urban life.
Thomas Stearn Eliot was born into the Eliot family of St. Louis, Missouri.
From 1898 to 1905, Eliot was student at Smith Academy, a preparatory school for Washington University. At the academy, Eliot studied Latin, Greek, French, and German. Upon graduation, he could have gone to Harvard University, but his parents sent him to Milton Academy near Boston for a preparatory year.
In the 1910–1911 school year, Eliot lived in Paris, studying at the Sorbonne and touring the continent. He returned to Harvard in 1911 as a doctoral student in philosophy.
When the First World War broke out, he went to London and then to Oxford.
On 26 June 1915, he got married with Vivienne Haigh-Wood. After a short visit, alone, to the U. S. to see his family, he returned to London and took a few teaching jobs such as lecturing at Birkbeck College, University of London.
In 1927, Eliot took two important steps in his self-definition: on June 29 he converted to Anglicanism and in November he dropped his American citizenship and became a British subject.
When Harvard
The death in english literature
Modernism and War Poets
2.1. Modernism
Modernism is an international movement that was originated in a period of deep social and intellectual change. It implied a break with traditional values and rejected Naturalism and Decadence in favour of introspection and technical skills (novelists experimented new methods and tried to explore the mental processes that are developed in human mind). Modernists were all against Victorianism and they were interested in the unconscious mind and symbolism; some features are the distorsion of the form, the breaking down of limitations in space and time, the need to reflect the complexity of modern urban life, the interest in the primitive and the impossibility of giving a final or absolute interpretation of reality.
An important modernist poet is Thomas Eliot, he focused on the squallor of XX century’s society and the urban life.
Thomas Stearn Eliot was born into the Eliot family of St. Louis, Missouri.
From 1898 to 1905, Eliot was student at Smith Academy, a preparatory school for Washington University. At the academy, Eliot studied Latin, Greek, French, and German. Upon graduation, he could have gone to Harvard University, but his parents sent him to Milton Academy near Boston for a preparatory year.
In the 1910–1911 school year, Eliot lived in Paris, studying at the Sorbonne and touring the continent. He returned to Harvard in 1911 as a doctoral student in philosophy.
When the First World War broke out, he went to London and then to Oxford.
On 26 June 1915, he got married with Vivienne Haigh-Wood. After a short visit, alone, to the U. S. to see his family, he returned to London and took a few teaching jobs such as lecturing at Birkbeck College, University of London.
In 1927, Eliot took two important steps in his self-definition: on June 29 he converted to Anglicanism and in November he dropped his American citizenship and became a British subject.
When Harvard