Modernism as a literary genre began sometime before the First World War. It was, however, in the fires of this great conflict that the genre was forged and adopted its characteristics of disorientation and disconnection. The development of...

Arguably, Ben Elton, Isaac Rosenberg, and Charles Sorely all present a vivid image of the brutal reality of both the grotesque physical and the resounding psychological effects of war, far different from the romanticism that pro-war poets of the...