Time of overwhelming technological changes
WWI - first war of mass destruction
grief over loss of pas
fear of eroding traditions
rise of youth culture
dominant mood: alienation/disconnection
writing is experimental: use of fragments, stream of consciousness, interior dialogue
writers seek to create a unique style
Hemingway
Faulkner
Steinbeck
Fitzgerald
Most influential Poets: Ezra Pound - Imagism
TS Eliot - Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock
The Wasteland (failure of Western Civilization)
Other Poets of period:
Robert Frost
e.e. cummings
Carl Sandburg
Poets of the Harlem Renaissance
Claude McKay
Jean Toomer
Countee Cullen
Zora Neale Hurston
