Frank Lawrence Lucas (1894 - 1967) was an English literary critic, essayist, poet, and Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. He is now best remembered for his scathing attacks on the poetry of T. S. Eliot, during the 1920s, and his book Style (1955),...

The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn, ... tired of common sense and...