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modernist literature

3 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.

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Four Quartets

A sequence of four poems by T. S. Eliot, published between 1936 and 1942, meditating on time, history, language, and transcendence through the lens of four places associated with the elements.

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The Hollow Men

A 1925 poem by T. S. Eliot depicting a world of spiritual emptiness populated by hollow, stuffed figures unable to act or speak directly.

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The Waste Land

A 1922 poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as the most important work of 20th-century English-language poetry, composed of fragments from multiple languages, traditions, and voices without stable narrative.

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