Wednesday 7 June 2023

THE LOST GENERATION

The Lost Generation is a term used to describe those who came of age during World War I. This term more specifically refers to a group of American writers whose works were published after that period. The term Lost Generation comes from a comment that Modernist writer Gertrude Stein made to author Ernest Hemingway.

The Lost Generation rebelled against post-World War I American materialism. Their faith in the moral ideals that had earlier given them hope was “lost”.  They found themselves disillusioned with post-war American society during the 1920s, often settling in Paris where they pursued more artistically liberated lifestyles.

In literature, the "Lost Generation" refers to a group of writers and poets who were men and women of that period. The most famous members were Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and T. S. Eliot. 

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