Movements in English Literature [Paperback]

Christopher Gillie selects the relevant writers that show the main movements in English literature between 1900 and 1940.In this 1975 volume, Christopher Gillie tries to show the main movements in English literature between 1900 and 1940, and selects for discussion those writers who have an abiding relevance, even those without a large readership. Gillie reinforces his critical comments with quotations from the selected writers, and provides an extensive bibliography for further study.In this 1975 volume, Christopher Gillie tries to show the main movements in English literature between 1900 and 1940, and selects for discussion those writers who have an abiding relevance, even those without a large readership. Gillie reinforces his critical comments with quotations from the selected writers, and provides an extensive bibliography for further study.In this 1975 volume, Christopher Gillie follows the method of selecting writers that are most significant for this study. He tries to show the main movements in English literature between 1900 and 1940, and selects for discussion those writers who have an abiding relevance, even those without a large readership. As a guide to himself as well as the reader, he includes in the account enough historical and social narrative as may help explain such relevance, and why he has made particular selections. Gillie reinforces his critical comments with quotations from the selected writers, and provides an extensive bibliography for further study.Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: the world of art and art in the world: twentieth-century differences; 2. The early twentieth-century novel: James, Wells and Conrad; 3. D. H. Lawrence (18851930); 4. The recovery of poetry 19001920; 5. Diversification of the novel 19201930; 6. The critical decade 19301940; 7. Yeats and Eliot: the climax; 8. Drama 19001940; Select bibliography; Index.