The Gladstone Parliament of 1880–85 was the 'no-man's land' between the old Radicalism and the new Socialism. ... 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. ... It was largely a poetry of urban themes; the Romantic dependence on nature had already declined. Narratives gave way to lyrics, above all to 'impressions', capturing the sensation of an immediate scene...

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