The Lost Generation

The Lost Generation

By Julia P and Loriana F

During the 1920's a group of writers known as "The Lost Generation" gained popularity. The term "the lost generation" was created by Gertrude Stein who heard her auto-mechanic say that his young workers were, "une generation Purdue". This referred to the young workers' terrible auto-mechanic repair skills.

Gertrude Stein took this phrase and use it to describe the people of the 1920's. The best known writers among The Lost Generation are F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, and T.S Eliot.

Variously, the term is used for the period from the end of World War I to the beginning of the Great Depression, though in the United States it is used for the generation of young people who came of age during and shortly after World War I, alternatively known as the World War I generation. Authors William Strauss and Neil Howe, well known for their generational theory, define the Lost Generation as the cohorts born from 1883 to 1900, who came of age during World War I and the roaring twenties.In Europe, they are mostly known as the "Generation of 1914," for the year World War I began.In France, the country in which many expatriates settled, they were sometimes called the Generation Au Feu, the "generation in flames."

In Britain the term was originally used for those who died in the war,and often implicitly referred to upper-class casualties who were perceived to have died disproportionately, robbing the country of a future elite.Many felt "that 'the flower of youth' and the 'best of the nation' had been destroyed," for example such notable casualties as the poets Isaac Rosenberg Rupert Brooke, and Wilfred Owen,composer George Butterworth and physicist Henry Moseley.

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