English poetry of the early 20th century.
The end of the 19th century witnessed unprecedented outbreak of drastic changes caused by the intensifying contradictions between the antiquated social order and the demands of the time. Those contradictions touched upon practically every sphere of social life and only deepened in the early 20th century. The new progressive age admitted no compromises with the antiquated social existence. In poetry it demanded new verse, new structures and revolutionary new views and visions. As a result, Europe saw a cultural and artistic hey-day, as symbolism and modernism in art and literature flourished throughout the continent, especially in France and Russia.
In Britain the new epoch with all the complexities of modern civilization came to take the place of the Victorian Age, which was the period of the country's colonial expansion and predominance in international trade on the one hand - and the domination of very strict, almost puritan morals in the social consciousness on the other. By that time English literature had "stumbled", as it were, just marking time and making no headway, so to speak. 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.
The non-academic literary movements of aestheticism, pre-Raphaelitism, imagism and others appeared in succession, nurturing a whole race of prose writers, poets, dramatist and philosophers. These people were to reform the literature of their time and to shape modern language, literary styles, poetic diction and verse. They also encouraged changes in social life as a result of the development of the social consciousness of people.
Thomas Sterns Eliot had a few major influences in his life. ... Eliot was born in Missouri. ... In 1919, Eliot's father died, leaving Eliot without the chance to make right past conflicts about his marriage to Vivienne. ... Eliot also wrote childrens poems. ... In 1934, Eliot wrote a pageant for a church. ...
Eliot Thomas Stearns Eliot was born on September 26, 1888, in St. ... Murder in the Cathedral With his best-known play, Murder in the Cathedral (1935), based on the murder of Thomas Becket, Eliot hoped to revive poetic drama. ... Thomas Beckett was killed in 1170 in Canterbury cathedral. The play does not only recall the martyrdom of Thomas Becket. ... THOMAS: This is not true. ...
Eliot Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965), was an early twentieth century poet, dramatist, publisher, playwright and literary and social critic", one of the twentieth century's major poets." and a leader of the modernist movement in literature T.S. ... Eliot's grandfather William Greenleaf Eliot had moved to St. ... Eliot was the last of six surviving children. ... Eliot actually spent much of his time in London. ... Eliot is synonymous with modernism. ...
'The Rock' was an essential step in T.s Eliot's theatrical apprenticeship.In it he taught himself how to write choral lines in greek fashion and in the style of the english morality plays'Everyman'.A request for a pageant play to raise funds for church building started Eliot off on his quest for a modern poetic drama.The effectiveness of 'the Rock'choruses ensured that the device would become an important feature of 'Murder in the Cathedral',although in the later the effects were more varied and dramatic. The Canterbury Festival had begun in 1...
Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in September 26th 1888. ... "Murder in the Cathedral" is TS Eliot's version of the murder of Thomas Beckett by 4 Royal Knights when they overheard the king wishing that the Archbishop (Thomas Beckett) would be taken care of. ... TS Eliot decided to make the drama more psychological, as he was deeply engrossed in the ever increasing secular world. ... Being a literature modernist, TS Eliot had not forgone a sense of unorthodox workings in his play. ... Yet "Murder in the Cathedral" focuses on Archbishop Thomas who is tempted with extravagance, power, more powe...
Eliot. ... It was also well liked because Eliot provided two views of martyrdom. ... It is according to this view that Thomas dies. ... Thomas argues and then refuses each tempter in turn. ... The Tempters represent evil and so Thomas avoids them. ...
One of the greatest writers of the period is Thomas Sterns Eliot. ... Eliot was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. ... While for Chaucer, April was a time of hope and spiritual renewal, Eliot describes it as "the cruellest month " (line 1). ... In the fourth and last part of the first canto, Eliot makes references to Baudelaire, Dickens and Dante. ... Eliot manages to capture the decline in which society has fallen and using a series of symbols and references he manages to portrait this horrific image....
Brook Thomas gives his definition of what a classic should entail. ... Thomas also says that Henry Adams writes in the style of St. ... There are many opposing viewpoints given by Charles Eliot (the author of Harvard Classics) against Adams in Thomas" article, but Eliot says that a classic can be an autobiographical work: "Like Adams, Eliot felt that stories of people's lives help fulfill his educational purposes." ... Adams loathes what President Eliot has done to Harvard because of his (Eliot's) reforms to the College. ... Thomas does not answer Adams" question (Is there a proper w...
Elliot" Thomas Stearns Elliot, an American poet and dramatist, was born in St Louis, on September 26, 1888 and died on January 4, 1965. ... In 1948 King George VI bestowed the Order of Merit on him and that was the same year Eliot was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. ... It is also interesting to notice that all Eliot's poems which have no narrative pattern and are obscure. ... The themes of death and of questioning whether life can have any definable meaning, as discussed in Eliot's earlier poetry re-emerge here, but they are viewed in the light of Eliot's conversion to ...
