... of the most radical manifestations of modernism in the arts belong to the immediate pre-war era. LITERATURE: In English Literature we need to distinguish between the writing, most often poetry, which directly expresses the personal experiences of the young men who went to war, and the major work by the emerging modernist writers that was published during the war years ... went into the army as junior officers and in the conditions of the Western front, had a short expectation of life. They read poetry as a source of memories of home and often, they wrote poetry themselves. These works a...

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... later Richard and his family moved to North Caldwell, New Jersey, where he would spend most of his childhood growing up. Richard had a younger brother named Lawrence. While growing up the two were inseparable. In 1938 Richard enrolled in the all-male college of Amherst where he majored in English. Richard first ambition was ... of himself as a primary poet, but while passing time he began to write poems to his wife back home. This started his passion for writing poetry and everything fell in place from then on. In 1956 Richard won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for his work ...

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... by overcoming family adversity and racial hardships. I. Begins Publishing Books a. Hughes first volume of poetry, "The Weary Blues" II. Return to college a. Attended the first African American College 1. Attended Lincoln University in Pennsylvania b. Returned as an acclaimed poet III. Hughes mentors for writing a. Paul Lawrence Dunbar and Carl Sandburg were his primary influences b. Began writing creatively while still a boy 1. ... Contributed to the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920's IV. Short Stories and Novels a. He wrote novels, short stories, poetry and plays 1. He wrote the acclaimed...

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