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The Lost Generation

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T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Ezra Pound were only a few in a group of writers that Stein pegged at the The Lost Generation. She was considered a mentor and pa… The Lost Generation, Home In Paris, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Lost Generation, T S Eliot, F Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway

The Lost Generation

T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Ezra Pound were only a few in a group of writers that Stein pegged at the The Lost Generation. She was considered a mentor and pa…

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Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and the Lost Generation

The status of affairs in America in the years following the First World War spawned a generation of authors termed “the lost generation.” In response to the political and social atmosphere of the United States these authors sought cultural...

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Chapter 2: She glanced up at the ancient buildings with disfavor. They seemed so disorganized, like a child’s toy blocks stacked haphazardly one upon the other. Small, crooked windows spoke of a time before glass, when waxed leather was all that kept the elements out. The spalling stone of the buildings themselves felt too old, too watchful. Even the modern gaslit street lamps didn’t help, casting shadows that flittered with the dance of the flame. Paris 19th Century, Paris 1800, France 1800s, 19th Century France, Paris History, Casting Shadows, Paris 1900, Paris Black And White, The Great

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Chapter 2: She glanced up at the ancient buildings with disfavor. They seemed so disorganized, like a child’s toy blocks stacked haphazardly one upon the other. Small, crooked windows spoke of a time before glass, when waxed leather was all that kept the elements out. The spalling stone of the buildings themselves felt too old, too watchful. Even the modern gaslit street lamps didn’t help, casting shadows that flittered with the dance of the flame.

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Nightcrawling with Kerouac, Ginsberg and the beatniks – in pictures

A new book of photographs by Burt Glinn – featuring a recently discovered essay by Jack Kerouac – captures the beat generation in all their jazz-heavy, late-night glory

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Are These the Poems to Remember? | Helen Vendler

Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature. The most significant names and texts are known worldwide: T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, Hart Crane, Robert Lowell, John Berryman, Elizabeth Bishop (and some would include Ezra Pound). Rita Dove, a recent poet laureate (1993–1995), has decided, in her new anthology of poetry of the past century, to shift the balance, introducing more black poets and giving…

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The Lost Generation

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Lost Generation | Definition, Writers, Characteristics, Books, & Facts

Lost Generation, a group of American writers who came of age during World War I and established their literary reputations in the 1920s. The term is also used more generally to refer to the post-World War I generation. Learn more about the Lost Generation in this article.

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Ernest Hemingway in Paris in the 1920s. An expatriate learning to be an author while living with other members of the "lost generation."

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Friends At Cafe

André Kertész, My Friends at Cafe du Dome, 1928

The Lost Generation

Betty Field, center, and Alan Ladd, right, in the 1949 film version of The Great Gatsby.

The Lost Generation

T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Ezra Pound were only a few in a group of writers that Stein pegged at the The Lost Generation. She was considered a mentor and pa…

Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and the Lost Generation

The status of affairs in America in the years following the First World War spawned a generation of authors termed “the lost generation.” In response to the political and social atmosphere of the United States these authors sought cultural...

Street Scene in Paris

Nightcrawling with Kerouac, Ginsberg and the beatniks – in pictures

A new book of photographs by Burt Glinn – featuring a recently discovered essay by Jack Kerouac – captures the beat generation in all their jazz-heavy, late-night glory

Are These the Poems to Remember? | Helen Vendler

Lost Generation | Definition, Writers, Characteristics, Books, & Facts

Lost Generation, a group of American writers who came of age during World War I and established their literary reputations in the 1920s. The term is also used more generally to refer to the post-World War I generation. Learn more about the Lost Generation in this article.

Hemingway's Paris

Ernest Hemingway in Paris in the 1920s. An expatriate learning to be an author while living with other members of the "lost generation."

Paris 1920s

In a Montparnasse Cafe, Paris 1920s

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