LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY IN MODERNITY
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“The Dead”
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“The Surrealist Manifesto”
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“The Heart of Darkness”
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“To the Lighthouse”
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Detailed explanation-1: -Eliot best known for? T.S. Eliot was an American-English poet, playwright, literary critic, and editor. He is best known as a leader of the Modernist movement in poetry and as the author of such works as The Waste Land (1922) and Four Quartets (1943).
Detailed explanation-2: -He also published three short stories in 1905, “Birds of Prey”, “A Tale of a Whale” and “The Man Who Was King”. The last mentioned story significantly reflects his exploration of Igorot Village while visiting the 1904 World’s Fair of St. Louis.
Detailed explanation-3: -Alfred Prufrock” in 1915, which, at the time of its publication, was considered outlandish. It was followed by The Waste Land (1922), “The Hollow Men” (1925), “Ash Wednesday” (1930), and Four Quartets (1943). He was also known for seven plays, particularly Murder in the Cathedral (1935) and The Cocktail Party (1949).
Detailed explanation-4: -The Waste Land can be viewed as a poem about brokenness and loss, and Eliot’s numerous allusions to the First World War suggest that the war played a significant part in bringing about this social, psychological, and emotional collapse.