T.S. Eliot – Books
“The Waste Land” and “The Hollow Men”
T.S. Eliot – Theme
despair, breakdown of the social norm, described emptiness of modern man
Ernest Hemingway – Books
“Old Man and the Sea” and “Farewell to Arms”
Ernest Hemingway – Theme
preoccupied with violence, wrote of men alienated from society
F. Scott Fitzgerald – Books
“This Side of Paradise” and “The Great Gatsby”
F. Scott Fitzgerald – Theme
American youth, haunting realization of emptiness and lack of human concern
Sinclair Lewis – Books
“Main Street” and “Babbitt”
Sinclair Lewis – Theme
critical, satirized values of small town America as being full and narrow-minded, poked fun at commercialism
H.
L. Mencken – Books
“American Memory” magazine
H.L. Mencken – Theme
Mocked everything he found distasteful in America
Ezra Pound – Books
“The Cantos” and “Ripostes” (Poems)
Ezra Pound – Theme
poems about clear, cold images that conveyed reality
