The Modern Era Of British Literature vol.1 | Page 3

By: Erick Fernandez

Erick Fernandez
Miss. Antwih
British Literature
October 9, 2013

The Modern Era

The Modern Era is British is quiet interesting, it is widely recognized as
being very important to history. Poetry began to be written in a style called
free verse. Many novelists began writing in a style called stream of
consciousness. Many works from this time period contained epiphanies. The
hero was lost in literature. One major theme was technology destruction of
society.

Thomas Ernest Hulme created free verse in 1908. He was born in September
16, 1883 at Grattan Hall and he died in September 28, 1917. Thomas Ernest
Hulme was an English critic and poet who, though his writings an art,
literature, and politics had a noticeable influence upon