THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
1920S AMERICAN CULTURE
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American writer famous for his novels and stories, such as The Great Gatsby, capturing the mood of the 1920s. He gave the decade the nickname the “Jazz Age.”
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American writer; he introduced a simplified style of writing. His novels The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms criticized the glorification of war.
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American songwriter; he gained popularity during the 1920s for such compositions as “White Christmas.”
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American poet and playwright; her work celebrated youth and a life of independence.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Vincent Millay, (born February 22, 1892, Rockland, Maine, U.S.-died October 19, 1950, Austerlitz, New York), American poet and dramatist who came to personify romantic rebellion and bravado in the 1920s.
Detailed explanation-2: -Like her contemporary Robert Frost, Millay was one of the most skillful writers of sonnets in the twentieth century, and also like Frost, she was able to combine modernist attitudes with traditional forms creating a unique American poetry.
Detailed explanation-3: -Vincent Millay’s most famous poem? Usually, readers and scholars consider ‘Renascence’ to be Millay’s most famous poem. Other famous poems she wrote include ‘What My Lips Have Kissed, and Where and Why’ and ‘I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed. ‘
Detailed explanation-4: -Edna St. Vincent Millay was one of the most respected American poets of the 20th century. Millay was known for her riveting readings and feminist views. She penned Renascence, one of her most well known poems, and the book The Ballad of the Harp Weaver, for which she won a Pulitzer Prize in 1923.