... avant-garde, became a feature of twentieth-century literature. Isolation and alienation, together with experimental forms of expression, came to characterise serious literature, while cinematic techniques and the elaboration of popular genres came to dominate other forms of cultural expression. To some writers, the alienation they felt and depicted was an exploration of the individual sensibility in a world which it was felt was becoming ever ... more standardized and uniform, an age of the masses. The First and Second World Wars (1914–18 and 1939–45 respectively) mark, in time and ...

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... vital Renaissance state, yet also a time of religious turmoil. He was a man engaged in the intellectual andഊreligious conflicts of his time, energised with vast ideas and imagination, making sense of the disorder. When it became clear that preferments would be open to him only if he entered Holy ... Browning, Tennyson). The sentimentality of poetry also increased from the 18th century. Essentially, this is a return to the sensibility to the Petrachan poets, only expressed in a more refined and sophisticated way. While Eliot sees that metaphysical poets have their faults, its is that t...

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