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The first half of the twentieth century may be divided into three distinct phases:
1) 1900-14 : This was the era of ‘establishment of poetry’ or the age of the Georgian poets, who followed a strong native tradition, despite the emergence of new tones and voices, and the new anxieties and difficulties associated with modern writing.
2) 1914-30 : The period of the first generation ‘war poets’ and the first great moderns- W.B. Yeats, D.H. Lawrence, Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot.
3) 1930-50 : The period of the poets of World War2- Auden, Day-Lewis, MacNiece and Spender, followed by Dylan Thomas and Keith Doughlas.
Major Modern Poets and their important works (1900-1914)
Robert Seymour Bridges (1844-1930):
· In 1913, he was appointed Poet Laureate.
· His first volumes of poetry Shorter Poems appeared anonymously in 1873, followed by a sonnet sequence, The Growth of Love (1876).
· Short poems- Prometheus the Fire Giver (1883), Eros and Psyche (1885), Demeter(1905).
· The Spirit of Man (1916): An anthology of verse and prose.
· The Testament of Beauty (1929):A poem in four books. His experiments in prosody led to the ‘loose alexandrines’ in this poem. An attempt to show beauty as the supreme force in life, and to trace man’s growth to perfect wisdom.
· Some most well-known poems- ‘London Snow’, ‘Awake My Heart’, and ‘The Storm is Over’.
Walter De La Mare (1873-1956):
· He was a poet, novelist, and short story writer- specialized in writing for children.
· Romantic sensibility, melody, and delicacy of diction were the essential of De La Mare’s poetry.
· His books of Children’s verses included Songs of Childhood (1902), A child’s Day (1912) and Peacock Pie (1913).
· His first book Songs of Childhood published under the pseudonym of Walter Ramal.
· Another important works- The Listeners (1912), The Veil (1921), Memoryand Other Poems (1938), The Burning Glass and Other Poems(1945), The Traveller (1946), Inward Companion (1950), Winged Chariot (1951) and O Lovely England and Other Poems(1953).
William Henry Davies (1871-1940):
· He was a Welsh poet.
· The Soul’s Destroyer (1905): His first collection of poetry, established many of the key features of Davies’s verse: pastoralism and sympathy for the underdog.
· New Poems (1907).
· Nature Poems (1908).
· The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp (1908): It describes his experiences of a vagrant life.
· A Poet’s Pilgrimage (1918).
· Later Days (1925).
· Collected Poems (1943): Around 600 poems appeared in this collection.
· Complete Poems (1963).
John Masefield (1878-1917):
· He was a poet, novelist, playwright, and journalist.
· He was British Poet Laureate from 1930 until his death in 1967.
· He was a close friend of W.B. Yeats.
· Salt-Water Ballads (1902): Masefield utilized his experiences at sea and poured them into this collection.
· Ballads and Poems (1910).
· The Everlasting Mercy (1911): The long narrative poem.
· The Daffodil Fields (1913).
· Dauber(1913).
· Reynard the Fox (1919): It is a Chaucerian narrative of a fox-hunt by a man who never hunted.
· Midsummer Night (1928): Collection of verse.
· End and Beginning (1934).
· The Land Workers (1943): It gives excellent pictures of the rural England of his youth.
Robert Graves (1895-1985):
· He was a poet, novelist and critic- served in the First World War.
· During the First World War he was severely injured and reported dead.
· Over the Brazier (1916).
· David and Goliath (1916).
· Fairies and Fusiliers (1917).
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