History of English Literature--The Inter – War years (1918-39)

The Inter – War years (1918-39)

Historical events	Literature
1936 – :Allen Lane founded The Penguin Books, B B C        starts. 1939 –: World War II begins.	1922 –: Ulysses –- Joyce The Waste Land – -T. S. Eliot. Forsyte Saga – -Galsworthy. 1932 –: Brave New World- – Huxley. 1935 – Murder in The Cathedral – T. S. Eliot

Rulers
1910-1936	George V
1936	Edward VIII
Authors
1888-1965	T. S. Eliot
1903-1950	George Orwell
1904-1991	Graham Greene
1907-1973	W. H. Auden
1914-1953	Dylan Thomas
	Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brute Edward Thomas etc are war poets.
1906	Samuel Beckett

1.Name the important works published in 1922.

Ans. In 1922 the famous poem entitled The Waste Land created by T. S. Eliot, and the celebrated novel named Ulysses worked by James Joyce. The novel Ulysses marks the beginning of ‘Stream of Consciousness’ technique in the domain of writing novels.

2.Name the two essays by T. S. Eliot?

Ans. Tradition and Individual Talent and Metaphysical Poets are two significant critical essays written by T. S. Eliot.

3.Name the verse plays by Yeats?

Ans. The Countess Cathleen and Deirdre are two verse plays by Yeats.

4.Name two plays by T. S. Eliot?

Ans. Murder in the Cathedral and The Family Reunion are the two plays by T. S. Eliot.

5.Name two important literary periodicals of the early 20^th century.

Ans. The Egoist, The Criterion, by T. S. Eliot.

6.Name two important literary critics of the 20^th century.

Ans. T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) – Tradition and Individual talent.

Symons, Arthur (1865-1945) – Studies in Elizabethan Drama.

7.Who writes Eyeless in Gaza? (1936)

Ans. Eyeless in Gaza, a novel by Aldous Huxley, shows the barrenness of contemporary values and it also presents a positive ideal which will serve a disenchanted and hopeless world.

8.Who is the creator of the Father Brown stories?

Ans. Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) wrote detective stories with Father Brown, a Christian priest, as the detective.

                His detective book is often called Father Brown stories. The collection of his Father Brown stories is The Innocence Of Father Brown.

9.What is symbolist movement in modern poetry?

Ans. Symbolists in modern poetry found in seemingly disconnected things unexpected links and upheld the power of the mind to render an organic what appears fragmentary. Arthur Symon and W.B. Yeats helped this movement through their theories of Symbolism which paved the way for modernism.

10.Who wrote the famous modern poem The Hollow Men? Mention another poem by the same poet?

Ans. The Hollowmen is written by T. S. Eliot. The poem depicts The hollowness of modern men in a most critical way. His other poem The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Observations are also notable.

11.Who are called The Bloomsbury Group?

Ans. The writers like Roger Fry (1866-1934), Lytton Starches, Virgina Woolf, E. M. Forster and Desmond Mac Carthy used to assemble in a house at Gordon Square, Bloomsbury. They were all critical personalities with their separate individuality. They neither shared they view with the New Romanticism or T. S. Eliot or I. A. Richards. They all advocated The freedom of expressing their critical opinions in their own way.

12.Who are called The New Romantics?

Ans. John Middleton Murry (1889-1957), D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) G. Wilson Knight, Herbert Read etc. are grouped together as The New Romantics in the history of literary criticism. They all advocated the Romantic ideals in their writing.

                                                                                                                                                               Ardhendu De