ABSTRACT
English Literature and Ideas in the Twentieth Century (1950) looks at the British pioneers of a new style of writing in the twentieth century. Handling new material in new ways, their experiments in technique and presentation are examined by the light of what was passing in their minds, and in the minds of their readers – attitudes, aspirations and dreams which are sometimes uncongenial, always unconventional.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|116 pages
Pre-War Phase
chapter Chapter I|11 pages
Transition at about 1900
chapter Chapter II|57 pages
The Pioneers of the Twentieth Century
chapter Chapter III|7 pages
Humanists Who Accompanied the Leaders, but Would Neither Lead Nor be Led
chapter Chapter IV|9 pages
Poets Who Tried to Pour New Wine into Old Bottles
chapter Chapter V|19 pages
Novelists Who Held Back and Dramatists Who Pressed Forward
chapter Chapter VI|13 pages
The Crisis in Poetry and its Would-Be Reformers
part II|79 pages
Interwar Phase