... , a few major names stand out as those who will probably define the 1900s – and it is easier to pick out such names from the first part of the century, than it is from the second half. Novelists such as Virginia Woolf, James Joyce and D.H. Lawrence will probably remain among the most significant of the century; poets from Thomas Hardy and W.B. Yeatsto T.S. Eliot and W.H. ... ranged from descriptive to love poetry, from light satirical verse to philosophical meditation (The Ship of Death). FIRST WORLD WAR POETRY At the beginning of the First World War the characteristic response to it ...

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