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Modernist writers like T.S. Eliot tended to live and write in the capital cities of Great Britain and Europe, using the city as a source of inspiration, a research tool, and a setting for his literature. City living encouraged the formation of literary coteries, which in turn encouraged development of new styles of writing to meet modern needs. Modernism is a general term applied retrospectively to the wide range of experimental and avant-garde trends in the literature (and other arts) of the early 20th century (worldbook)and the Modernists refused to accept the nineteenth-century notion that certain subjects were 'unsuitable' for literature.
Their credo, 'make it new', inspired them to search for new subject matter, and new forms of language, which would allow them to express their view of the modern world. For example, T. S. Eliot replaced the logical exposition of thoughts with collages of fragmentary images and complex allusions. Modernist writing is predominantly......

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