Word: asharp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ASHARP SENSE of betrayal brought Hemingway to write so cynically of his compatriot expatriot Eliot shortly after the publication of The Waste Land in 1922. But like Hemingway, young American writers in Europe and at home were stunned by the reactionary sentiments being voiced by this pioneer poet--a man who, along with Ezra Pound, had created a new sense of the past as a vital part of the present and future, no longer as a static, restrictive force. Now, with his apocalyptic view of the decline of western civilization, Eliot seemed to argue the superiority of the past...
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