However, this tendency has been balanced by other writers who have made use of popular forms in order to communicate with a wider audience. ... Eliot even furnished footnotes to help the reader with his The Waste Land. ... He brought home to British poets the significance of French experimental symbolists like Rimbaud, Verlaine, Laforgue, and Mallarme, and observed that with them literature 'becomes itself a kind of religion, with all the duties and responsibilities of the sacred ritual'. ... Such a rich use of language expresses a view of reality which is more fluid. ... Hardy was...

• Word Count: 10566
• Approx Pages: 42