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    Between the wars, several American authors rose to prominence writing in realistic styles about American and southern themes. Robinson Jeffers wrote of the Spanish ranchers and Indians in California, while Hart Crane and Marianne Moore experimented with poetic form. Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and William Faulkner wrote influential novels set in the aftermath of World War I that depicted disillusionment with the modern world, often through minimalist prose styles. Sinclair Lewis was also prominent for his critiques of American society in works like Main Street.

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    Between the wars, several American authors rose to prominence writing in realistic styles about American and southern themes. Robinson Jeffers wrote of the Spanish ranchers and Indians in California, while Hart Crane and Marianne Moore experimented with poetic form. Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and William Faulkner wrote influential novels set in the aftermath of World War I that depicted disillusionment with the modern world, often through minimalist prose styles. Sinclair Lewis was also prominent for his critiques of American society in works like Main Street.

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    Between the wars, several American authors rose to prominence writing in realistic styles about American and southern themes. Robinson Jeffers wrote of the Spanish ranchers and Indians in California, while Hart Crane and Marianne Moore experimented with poetic form. Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and William Faulkner wrote influential novels set in the aftermath of World War I that depicted disillusionment with the modern world, often through minimalist prose styles. Sinclair Lewis was also prominent for his critiques of American society in works like Main Street.

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    BETWEEN THE WARS

    Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) wrote of the Spanish rancheros and Indians and their mixed traditions,and of the haunting beauty of the land Tamar (1924), Roan Stallion (1925), The Tower Beyond Tragedy (1924) Medea (1946), Edward Estlin Cummings (1894-1962) attractive, innovative verse distinguished for its humor, grace, celebration of love and eroticism, and experimentation with punctuation and visual format on the page. poem in Just Hart Crane (1899-1932) luscious, overheated style Voyages (1923, 1926) At Melvilles Tomb (1926), The Bridge (1930), Marianne Moore (1887-1972) Poems are conversational, yet elaborate and subtle in their syllabic versification Langston Hughes (1902-1967) poet of the Harlem Renaissance The Negro Speaks of Rivers PROSE WRITING, 1914-1945: AMERICAN REALISM Ernest Hemingway wrote of war, hunting, and other masculine pursuits in a stripped, plain style; William Faulkner set his powerful southern novels spanning generations and cultures firmly in Mississippi heat and dust; Sinclair Lewis delineated bourgeois lives with ironic clarity

    F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) This Side of Paradise (1920), The Great Gatsby (1925) Tender Is the Night (1934), Flappers and Philosophers (1920), Tales of the Jazz Age (1922), All the Sad Young Men (1926) Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

    The Sun Also Rises The Old Man and the Sea His simple style makes his novels easy to comprehend, and they are often set in exotic surroundings. wrote of war, death, and the lost generation of cynical survivors Farewell to Arms (1929) For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940),

    William Faulkner (1897-1962) The Sound and the Fury (1929) As I Lay Dying (1930), Faulkners themes are southern tradition, family, community, the land, history and the past, race, and the passions of ambition and love Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) Main Street (1920) incisive presentation of American life and his criticism of American materialism, narrowness, and hypocrisy Arrowsmith (1925), Babbitt (1922). John Dos Passos (1896-1970) U.S.A. John Steinbeck (1902-1968) The Grapes of Wrath(1939) Of Mice and Men (1937), Cannery Row (1945), East of Eden (1952). combines realism with a primitivist romanticism

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