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E Modernism – 1890’s – 1940’s velyn Waugh (1903-1966)
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E Modernism – 1890’s – 1940’s velyn Waugh (1903-1966) W 
augh, an English novelist, biographer and travel writer, is known for his darkly humorous and deeply satirical novels from the early period of his career which were followed by more serious novels with a Catholic undertone in his later career. His links with the upper class society of England inspired much of his writings, many of his characters being based on personalities of the day. Waugh is best known for his novel ‘Brideshead Revisited’ Brideshead Revisited (1945) - Julia chooses love of God over her love for Charles Julia said: “Here in the shadow, in the corner of the stair - a minute to say good-bye.” “So long to say so little.” “You knew?” “Since this morning. Since before this morning. All this year.” “I didn’t know till today. Oh, my dear, if you could only understand, then I could bear to part - or bear it better. I’d say my heart were breaking, if I believed in broken hearts. I can’t marry you, Charles. I can’t be with you ever again.” “I know.” “How can you know?” “What will you do?” “Just go on. Alone. How can I tell what I shall do? You know the whole of me. You know I’m not one for a life of mourning. I’ve always been bad. Probably I’ll be bad again - punished again. But the worse I am, the more I need God. I can’t shut myself out from His mercy. That is what it would mean, starting a life with you - without Him. One can only see one step ahead. But I saw today there’s one thing unforgivable, like things in the school-room, so bad they’re unpunishable, that only Mummy could deal with. The bad thing I was on the point of doing that I’m not quite bad enough to do - to set up a rival God to God. It may be because of Mummy, Nanny, Sebastian, Cordelia, perhaps Bridey and Mrs Muspratt - keeping my name in their prayers. Or it may be a private bargain between me and God. That if I give up this one thing I want so much, however bad I am He won’t quite despair of me in the end. Now we shall both be alone. And I shall have no way of making you understand.” “I don’t want to make it easy for you.’ I said; “I hope your heart may break. But I do understand.” T
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ay Lewis is an Irish-born poet and was the Poet Laureate for Great Britain between 1968 and 1972. He also wrote as a mystery writer under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake. His younger career was much influenced by his friendship with Auden but over his career he distanced himself from Auden and developed a more traditional style of lyricism. He is the father of the actor Daniel Day-Lewis Song Come, live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove Of peace and plenty, bed and board, That chance employment may afford. I’ll handle dainties on the docks And thou shalt read of summer frocks: At evening by the sour canals We’ll hope to hear some madrigals. Care on thy maiden brow shall put A wreath of wrinkles, and thy foot Be shod with pain: not silken dress But toil shall tire thy loveliness. Hunger shall make thy modest zone And cheat fond death of all but bone— If these delights thy mind may move, Then live with me and be my love. Modernism – 1890’s – 1940’s Post-modernism – 1945- present
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reene was an author, playwright and literary critic. Much of his world aims to explore the moral and political issues of the period which at the time were considered ambivalent. Catholic religious themes are at the root of much his writing, although he objected to being known as a Catholic novelist. He is best known for his novels, The Power and the Glory and The End of the Affair. The End of the Affair (1951) I wrote at the start that this was a record of hate, and walking there beside Henry towards the evening glass of beer, I found the one prayer that seemed to serve the winter mood: O God, You've done enough, You've robbed me of enough, I'm too tired and old to learn to love, leave me alone forever." Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) N 
eruda was a Chilean writer and politician. Neruda’s style ranges from erotically charged love poems to historical epics and political manifestos. When the communist party fell in Chile, Neruda fled and lived in exile in Argentina for a number of years. He is best known for his collection of poems ‘Twenty Poems of Love and A Song of Despair’. In 1971 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. I Crave Your Mouth, Your Voice, Your Hair (1924) Don't go far off, not even for a day, because -- because -- I don't know how to say it: a day is long and I will be waiting for you, as in an empty station when the trains are parked off somewhere else, asleep. Don't leave me, even for an hour, because then the little drops of anguish will all run together, the smoke that roams looking for a home will drift into me, choking my lost heart. Oh, may your silhouette never dissolve on the beach; may your eyelids never flutter into the empty distance. Don't leave me for a second, my dearest, because in that moment you'll have gone so far I'll wander mazily over all the earth, asking, Will you come back? Will you leave me here, dying?
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