This is a brilliant, succinct and penetrating work and should become a standard introduction to the literature and cultural climate of the period. It is a short history of the most important creative period of American literature, which includes such names as Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner. The author’s account of this period is both critical and historical, and the writers and their work are discussed with proper regard to the social and cultural situation of American society and civilization in the age of the so-called "lost generation".

CONTENTS:
Lost and Found
The Uses of the Past
The Useable Present
The Romantic Warriors
Lewis and Svevo
Exploding the Verb
Poets
Background versus Foreground
Literary Criticism
Summary
A Postscript on Method