The Imagist movement launched by Ezra Pound, calling forth the use of common speech, novel rhythms and clear images, had set the wheel rolling. T.S. Eliot, who attacked romanticism as a false and deceptive faith, and advocated a return to classicism with a steady recognition of man’s imperfections.
The light, clear and melodious form of Georgian poetry was finally superseded by Eliot’s Waste Land which was a vast chaotic vision of the disruption of European civilization embodied in “a heap of broken images”, stirring and absolutely irregular rhythms, and a multitude of scattered allusions.