The Lost Generation were the group of American writers who came of age during World War I (1914–18) and established their literary reputations in the 1920s. They shared a worldview shaped by the horrors of the “war to end all wars” and a disillusionment with the society that had allowed it. The generation was “lost” in the sense that its inherited values were no longer relevant in the postwar world and because of its spiritual alienation from a United States that many writers of the era considered to be hopelessly provincial, materialistic, and emotionally barren.
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