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‘Twentieth Century English Literature’ is a work spread across five chapters dealing with Modern English Literature. Under the study the major genres of poetry, drama and novel and criticism have been dealt with. It is the aim that the students should go through the studies of recent developments that have taken places; not only in the field of literature but also learn about the social, political and economic influences operating on literary experimentations and reactions of the writers of the time. It is because these influences serve as the background to all the genres of English literature. Individual elements of these literary forms; their specific features and some of the streams in literature of the time have been covered for the learners at the special level of English Language and Literature Learning. Here the focus is on the literary specimens and the major contributors to the literature of the modern age.
The present work strives to make the picture clear regarding historical / literary background for the students. Accordingly, first and foremost, literary developments in all the genres have been focused on in general sense of time in which it is produced and the writers who shaped this literary period.