in width and depth.The outstanding realistic novelists of this period were John Galsworthy,H.G.Wells,and Arnold Bennett, Who represented,often,with great skill,true pictures of the corrupted capitalist world,showing considerable insight and distressabout the injustice and unkindness oftheir society. V.20th-century English literature Prose,poetry,and drama written in English in the UK in the 10 1900s.The century was aperiod ofgreat artistic change,and is dominated by the impact of World WarI(1914-18)and World War II(1939-45)as well as by the artistic concerns of modernism(which affected both themes and methods of writing) The range of literature and ofits readership,which increased in the 19th-century English literature period,rose even morerapidly in the 20th century.Seealso English literature. Early 20th-century novel 10° The 20th century is dominated by the effects of World War I and II.In contrast to writing which is in favour of the expansion of the British Empire,such as the work of English writer Rudyard Kipling (Jungle Book,1894-95,Kim,1901),works which approach World War I are much more uncertain of the concept of in width and depth. The outstanding realistic novelists of this period were John Galsworthy, H. G. Wells, and Arnold Bennett, Who represented, often, with great skill, true pictures of the corrupted capitalist world, showing considerable insight and distress about the injustice and unkindness of their society. V. 20th-century English literature Prose, poetry, and dramawritten in English in the UK in the 1900s. The century was a period of great artistic change, and is dominated by the impact of World War I(1914–18) and World War II (1939–45), as well as by the artistic concerns of modernism(which affected both themes and methods of writing). The range of literature and of its readership, which increased in the 19th-century English literature period, rose even more rapidly in the 20th century. See also English literature. Early 20th-century novel The 20th century is dominated by the effects of World War I and II. In contrast to writing which is in favour of the expansion of the British Empire, such as the work of English writer Rudyard Kipling (Jungle Book, 1894–95 , Kim, 1901), works which approach World War I are much more uncertain of the concept of 10’ 10’