During the 1930s, how did the younger generation of writers like W. H. Auden differ from the elder modernist poets such as Eliot and Pound?

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In the 1930s, younger writers like W. H. Auden were considered more radical in their approaches but were seen as less inventive compared to senior modernists like T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound.

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During the 1930s, how did the younger generation of writers like W. H. Auden differ from the elder modernist poets such as Eliot and Pound?

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