English Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...Although the works of Jean Jacques Rousseau and...expectations, most English intellectuals renounced...liberating aesthetic: poetry should express, in...figures who lived on into the 20th cent., share...pessimistic view in their poetry, but Housmans well...effect on 20th-century poetry. During the 1890s the...conspicuous figures on the English literary scene were...