Great Depression Begins
Poets involved
What happened
The Wall Street Crash of October 1929 triggered a catastrophic contraction of credit and trade that spread rapidly across industrialised economies, producing mass unemployment and poverty on a global scale throughout the 1930s. The Depression radically altered literary culture: it gave urgency to socialist and documentary poetry, brought working-class voices into print, and shifted the concerns of modernist writers toward economic suffering and political responsibility.
Literary impact
The Great Depression that began in 1929 inspired a surge of social realist poetry that addressed themes of poverty and injustice. Poets like Langston Hughes and Carl Sandburg depicted the harsh realities of life during this era, using their verses to advocate for social change.
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