【正确答案】正确答案：The decade of the 1920s has been one of special interest in more ways than one. Sandwiched as it was between two events of great historic significance, the First World War and the Great Depression , it assumed a unique importance of its own. There were at least two important factors that made the decade different from the periods both preceding and following it: The First World War, and the sense of life being dislocated and fragmented which was more keenly felt in the first years of the twentieth century. The 1920s was a peculiar period in which the postwar economic boom and the sense of spiritual disorientation combined to produce a peculiar mood of the age. The greatness of the literature of the decade lies in the fact that it managed to capture that mood and keep it on record for posterity. Just as Emerson and his contemporaries embodied in their writings the temper of their age, so the works of T. S. Eliot and Ernest Hemingway and their generation constituted an adequate expression of the spirit of their times.