LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MODERN POETRY AND POETICS
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It refers to a group of talented American émigré writers who lived in Europe after World War I.
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It refers to the young generation whose coming of age was interrupted by World War I.
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It refers to English poets who sought refuge in New York City after World War I ended.
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Both A and B
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Detailed explanation-1: -The term “Lost Generation” became associated with a group of writers and artists with whom Hemingway worked in Paris, France, during the early 1920s. However, the term also refers more broadly to all those who reached adulthood during World War I. In Europe, they have also been called “the generation of 1914.”
Detailed explanation-2: -Gertrude Stein is credited for the term Lost Generation, though Hemingway made it widely known.
Detailed explanation-3: -In literature, the “Lost Generation” refers to a group of writers and poets who were men and women of this period. All were American, but several members emigrated to Europe. The most famous members were Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and T. S.