By the time of the First World War there was a whole new generation of young soldiers who not only could read but, very important, were able for the first time in the history of war to write letters home describing war in all its unheroic horror. ... Before 1914, English literature and ideas were in many ways still harking back to the nineteenth century: after 1918, Modern begins to define the twentieth century. ... Auden will probably still be read in a hundred years' time. ... There is also the fact that there is much more literature, more cultural production in general, in the twentie...

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