"It is the major imaginative writers who are thus aware of a world breaking up around them, and their own several ways they seek some myth with to express the unprecedented crisis of their time, and some seek also a way in which they can effect a solution.
The most impressive synthesis in the whole period is that W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, and James Joyce, working indepedently, all find the same problem, though their resolution of it differs widely. T.S. Eliot in The Wast Land (1922), James Joyce in Ulysses (1922) and W.B. Yeats in such volymes as The Wild Swans at Coole (1919), Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921), The Tower (1928), and The Winding Stair (1933), are trying to discover some formula through which the fragmentation of modern experience can be expressed." (sid 85)
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