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Instructions: Develop an essay of 1,000-1,500 words. Be sure to argue a particular point of view in your essay (your thesis) and cite varied examples from the readings in MLA format in order to support your perspective. Include a works cited page. Additional MLA information can be found in Week 3's and Week 6's readings. Please submit your essay to the assignment section of the course. This assignment is worth 30% of your final grade. Up to this point we have discussed the Romantic period and the Victorian era, Modernism and Post-Modernism. You will select one era and in partial fulfillment of Course Objective 4, you will discuss a literary movement in connection with one of our assigned readings.
Select one of the following topics as the focus for your essay:
1. Discuss one work or one author from this course that you believe had the most significant influence on British literary history. Please be sure to maintain third person perspective.
2. In this course we have discussed British literary history and the progression of trends in British literature. Give a brief description of one of the trends we have discussed in the class, with a brief explanation of the characteristics of the trend. You may want to touch on the social, political, historical or cultural issues that influenced this trend. Then provide at least one example of a piece of British literature we have read in this course from this period with a well developed analysis identifying why the selected piece is a good representation of the trend. Note: "Modernism" and "the Romantic period" are examples of what is meant by a "literary trend" in this question.
3. Choose a work of British literature we read in the course. Write a response in which you present arguments for and against the work's relevance for a person or society in the present day.
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Influence of T.S. Eliot to the British Literary History
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Influence of T.S. Eliot to the British Literary History
Thomas Steams Eliot (1888) was born in the United States and became a naturalized
British subject in 1927. As he was especially acclaimed by his own time as the leading spirit in
poetry, some extended account both of the age and of himself is needed. Eliot's chief early
volumes of verse were Prufrock, and Other Observations (1917), Ara Vos Prec (1919)-for the
title see Purgatorio, xxvi, 145-and Poems (1920); and the first fact to note about them is that they
appeared in a hideous world of which they were a reflection. The unparalleled and meaning-less
slaughter of the War had shaken the foundations of all belief and made the young so old that the
future was wiped out. To the failure of the War had succeeded the almost greater failure of the
Peace. The cant of war had been false; the cant of peace was futile. Nothing pointed more clearly
to spiritual bankruptcy than the discrepancy between noble ideals of peace and the ignoble minds
of the peace-makers, who, prating of goodwill and unity, were sowing dragons' teeth over all the
fields of recent conflict. People were weary, disillusioned, cynical, anxious to forget the past,
unable to conceive a future, and interested only in a fast-fleeting present. Tranquillity and reconstruction were expected to emerge from mental and moral apathy, while the desires of ...
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