English Literature / Unit 16 ENL 1547 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Common Errors About Modernism
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The idea
Four errors recur. T. S. Eliot was born in America, not England. Joyce left Ireland but wrote only of Dublin. Heart of Darkness was published in eighteen ninety-nine, before the century turned. And Georgian poetry is traditional, not Modernist.
In practice
Four common corrections.
Where people slip
Modernism began before nineteen hundred.
Your place on the trail
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Builds on
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