Literary Movement
Modernism
Broadly 1890–1945. Influenced by Symbolism, Imagism, and the shock of World War I. Key principles articulated by Pound ('Make it new') and Eliot ('impersonality').
Definition
An early 20th-century movement rejecting Victorian conventions in favour of fragmentation, allusion, irony, and formal experiment.
Example
Eliot's The Waste Land (1922); Pound's Cantos; Yeats's later visionary poetry.