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Modernists in Late British Literature
Modernists in Late British Literature
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Literature
Undergraduate 2
12/11/2010

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Hardy
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Wessex, meliorist, his work never developed
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Housman
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pejorist, homosexual, "shropshire lad"
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Owen
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WWI, mentor was Siegfried Sassoon, suffered from shellshock
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Brooke
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Rugby Cambridge, cynical, WWI
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Yeats
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sligo, "what if", religions, greatest modern English poet of the 20th century
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Lawrence
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tuberculosis, miners, the vitality of men over the reasoning of women
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Eliot
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nobel prize, moved to England, critic
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Auden
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eclectic, moved to America, claimed to be a Christian but doubted key doctrines, homosexual
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Munro
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Canadian, wrote stories in the 1st person
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Joyce
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Dublin, "Ulysses", "Portrait of an Artist"
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Thomas
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Wales, Alcohol
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Lessing
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feminism
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Larkin
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librarian, dominant figure in "the movement"- a reaction against extravagance in poetry
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Gordimer
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South Africa, Apartheid
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Rushdie
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magic realism, fatwa
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