ABSTRACT
T. S. Eliot reached England from the United States in 1915. The war did bring a change of mood if the work of Rupert Brooke is compared with that of Wilfred Owen, but the revolution in style in Eliot's Waste Land cannot be directly attributed to it. Writing novels and poetry was not confined to the south of England, though that is where English writers tended to live, when they lived in England at all. Jazz came to England in 1919, brought by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band direct to the Hammersmith Palais. Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Paul Whiteman soon became well known. British painting remained self-contained at the beginning of the century. John Buchan continued to write best-selling stories in the intervals between helping to run the British Empire. British music was restored to life in the early twentieth century by a composer who looked like a cavalry officer, walked his dogs and loved the races, Edward Elgar.
