... -war epoch and portrayed apocalyptical pictures of total devastation, death and horror caused by the irreversible historic cataclysms. From 1917 to 1920 Eliot also edited a small unprofitable magazine Egoist and later another quarterly edition, Criterion, which was the most distinguished international critical journal of ... "the lost generation". In a series of sometimes realistic and sometimes mythological episodes, loosely linked by the legend of the search for the Grail, Eliot presented a sympathetic glimpse of a line of characters uneasily looking forward to a world order based on c...

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