... period seemed to have exhausted its civic and moral spirit, peculiar to the works of the great masters of the past like Shakespeare, Milton and Byron. Therefore, the new generation of poets rose in a protest against the cultural values and traditions of the Victorian Age, trying to give English ... result of the development of the social consciousness of people. An outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day literature was made by the famous American-English poet, playwright, editor and critic Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965), a man of varied and distinguished talent and the initia...

• Word Count: 1915
• Approx Pages: 8
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate