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During WORLD WAR

Lost Generation: Miller Hemingway calls in his memoir ' A moveable Feast ' that It was Stein who coined phrase Lost Generation firstly in 1920s.
In Generational Theory, William Strauss and Neil Howe depicted Lost Generation as Cohort Born.
Group of writers and intellectuals who came during world war.This war left them purposeless, directionless and prosaic.
They are lost generations of disillusionment. Writers are Stein, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Eliot, Ezra Pound , Sylvia Plath & so forth.

Jazz age literature first described by F.fitzgerald in Great Gatsby novel around 1920s.

Harlem Renaissance:
Its group of African and American writers named John Langston Hughes , Georgia Douglas & so on.
Its cultural and intellectual revival of African- American culture, literature, art, music, dance , politics and So on.

The Fugitive poets :
Fugitive poets or Fugitives are group of poets and scholars at Tennessee university where they published literary magazine named The Fugitive.
Poets - JC ransom, Allen Tate , Robert pen Warren, David Davidson, Laura Riding.
Fugitives are called south Agrarians.

Newyork School of poetry- Poetry belonging to city of Newyork.
Poets- John Ashbery, Barbara Guest and so on.

Black Mountain Poets:
Band of writers belonging to America.
poets- Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Olson etc.

Beat Movement Poets: A band of poets belonging to America in 1950s.
Poets- William Burroughs , Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac & so on.

Fireside poets: They are Household poets or schoolroom poets.
They are William Cullen Bryant, James Russell Lowell and Henry Longfellow etc first american poets who rivaled British Poets.

Jazz Poetry : Pioneer of Jazz Poetry- John Langston Hughes. Except him, Jack Kerouac was one known for Jazz music.

Realistic Writers- Mark Twain , Henry James , Whitman , Frost & Dickinson.

Transcendentalists: Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Melville, Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Time Period of American literature:

Colonial Period :
Outbreak of American Revolution .

Revolutionary Age:
Victory of Jacksonian democracy in 1828.

Age of Romanticism :
Age of Transcendentalism and american renaissance and American dream prevailed that time.
Realistic Period:
Henry James, Mark Twain, Whitman & Dickinson.

Naturalistic Period:
Novelists- Hemingway, Fitzgerald,Faulkner, Saul Bellow , P S Buck , John Steinbeck etc.

Playwrights- Eugene O'Neill

Post War period :
Fugitives, Agrarians, Newyork poets and Black Mountain poets.

Post Modern period 1960-







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