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The Georgian poets
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Before the Second World War there was a sharp distinction between the avant-garde groups and the poets still influenced by the Shakespearean Romantic tradition. The poets of the first group are known as the Georgian poets, from the anthology Georgian Poetry, published during the reign of George V. Among these poets were Rupert Hulme, Walter de la Mare and Edward Thomas. They focused on typically English elements like the countryside and used the convention of diction. They were always indifferent or even hostile to the new sensibility and technique of the Classicists, who included W.B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot.
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The new Romantics
The following features refer either to the poets of the 1930s or to the new Romantics. Choose the correct alternative.
A: Their greatest representative was W.H. Auden.
B: Their greatest representative was Dylan Thomas.
C: They were against intellectualism and commitment.
D: They concerned themselves with the social and political aspects of human life.
E: They appealed to emotions and individual themes such as love, birth, death and sex.
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The War Poets
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The War Poets
A: were all young.
B: dealt with the horrors of war in a traditional way.
C: had an anti-rhetorical style.
D: used an elevated and conventional language.
E: chose a violent, everyday language.
F: decided to avoid the sad theme of modern warfare.
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Imagism
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A: Imagism was officially the first movement of Modern poetry.
B: It flourished between 1932 and 1937.
C: The American poet T.S. Eliot coined the name 'Imagiste'.
D: The theorist of Imagism was the English T.E. Hulme, who died in the Great War.
E: The principles of Imagism are explained in the volume Speculations: Essays on Humanism and the Philosophy of Art by T.E. Hulme.
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Imagism
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1. One of the principles of Imagism was the ________ choice of any subject matter.
2. Imagist poems were usually ________ and contained no moral comment.
3. Imagists used ________, clear and precise images.
4. Their rhythm was free from metrical ________.
5. The aim of their poetry was to achieve precision and ________.
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Symbolism
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1. Symbolism started in France with the collection Les Fleurs du mal published by ________ in 1857.
2. The Symbolists' style was marked by ________ statements.
3. Images were used to ________ rather than to state.
4. The sound of words was considered important because it had to convey the 'music of ________'.
5. The Symbolists quoted from other literatures, revealing ________ references.
6. They used ________ verse and allowed their readers to offer their own interpretations of the poems.
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T.S. Eliot and Symbolism
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1. The theory and practice of Symbolism were expressed by T.S. Eliot in his essay ________ and the Individual Talent.
2. Eliot described ________ as an escape from emotion and personality.
3. According to Eliot, the poet is an explorer of experience and his rich language requires close ________ to be understood.
4. The theme of Eliot's The Waste Land is the collapse of ________ civilisation.
5. Eliot thought that the beginning of the 20th century was marked by cultural and spiritual ________.
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The poets of the 1930s
Tick the words or phrases which are related to the poets of the 1930s.
A: Entertainment.
B: Social commitment.
C: Left wing.
D: W.H. Auden.
E: Right wing.
F: Cambridge.
G: Oxford.
H: Williams Carlos Williams.
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The poets of the 1930s
Read the following sentences and say whether they are true or false.
A: The poets of the 1930s were known as the 'Oxford poets'.
B: They wrote complex and allusive poems.
C: Two famous poets of the 1930s were T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound.
D: The 'Oxford poets' wanted to encourage people to follow the right course of action.
E: They employed language to create rich patterns of meaning.
F: They reacted against the use of slang and jazz rhythms.
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The poets of the 1930s
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1. The 'Oxford poets' admired ________.
2. Their poems were characterised by political ________.
3. They used images from the world of ________.
4. They had to face the brutal reality around them, which included ________, Nazism and Fascism.
5. This generation of poets had been encouraged by its teachers to develop a ________ conscience.
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