Poetry of the period seemed to have exhausted its civic and moral spirit, peculiar to the works of the great masters of the past like Shakespeare, Milton and Byron. Therefore, the new generation of poets rose in a protest against the cultural values and traditions of the Victorian Age, trying to give English poetry a new creative urge. ... This contrast was a shock to the poet, and he expressed it in his early works (1909 - 1920). ... In 1936 the poet even attached Notes on the Waste Land to the edition in order to explain the work's many quotations and allusions. ... This event marked a...

• Word Count: 1915
• Approx Pages: 8
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate