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THE MODERN AGE

  • This age started in the year 1910 and ended in the year 1945.
  • The period after the First World War is known as the Modern Age.
  • Literature of the modern age is characterised by widespread experiments and innovation sin subject matter, form, plot, style, character.
  • The Modern period was the reaction against the Victorian culture and aesthetic views. (Concerned with beauty).
  • Intellectuals and the artists at the turn of the 20th century believed that the cultural, dead end has been reached.
  • Experimentation and individuals became virtues instead of progress and growth.
  • Writers:
  • W. B. Yetas
  • T. S. Eliot
  • Rudyard Kipling
  • Virginia Woolf
  • George Bernard Shaw
  • Samuel Beckett
  • Harold Pinter
  • Stephen Spender

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