Modern Age | বাংলা লেকচার | Modern Era | Modern Period in History of English literature

Modern Age | বাংলা লেকচার | Modern Era | Modern Period in History of English literature Modern age Modern age starts with the beginning of the First World War on 1914 and ends on 1939 when the Second World War began. The First World War caused massive destruction not only to the socio-political structure of Europe, but also to the Western culture, belief, tradition, and values. After the war, the capacity of Christianity and traditional values was questioned as they utterly failed to uphold peace. Consequently, a break with traditional modes of life took place. In literature new tendencies replaced the old, established rules. A visible change in the selection of subject, form and style became evident. Literary experiments and movements marked the age. Symbolism, imagism, existentialism, expressionism, surrealism, stream of consciousness theory, and psycho-analysis, are some of the new trends that characterized the literature of this age. Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats, Dylan Thomas, and W. H. Auden are the poets of this age. James Joyce, Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf are some of the famous novelists of this period. G. B. Shaw, Samuel Beckett, and Bertold Brecht are the leading dramatists of the modern age.