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Modernism is a major literary movement of the first part of the twentieth-century. The term Postmodern literature is used to describe certain tendencies in post-World War II literature. Irish writers were especially important in the twentieth-century, including James Joyce and later Samuel Beckett, both central figures in the Modernist movement
The 20th Century's Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of Fiction is a list of the 100 best English-language books of the 20th century compiled by American literary critic Larry McCaffery. The list was created largely in response to the Modern Library 100 Best Novels list (1999), which McCaffery considered out of touch with 20th-century ...
Literature of the 20th century refers to world literature produced during the 20th century (1901 to 2000).. The main periods in question are often grouped by scholars as Modernist literature, Postmodern literature, flowering from roughly 1900 to 1940 and 1960 to 1990 [1] respectively, roughly using World War II as a transition point.
Modern Library's 100 Best Novels is a 1998 list of the best English-language novels published during the 20th century, [a] as selected by the American publishing imprint, Modern Library, from among 400 novels published by Random House, which owns Modern Library. [1]
1733 in literature – Letters Concerning the English Nation – Voltaire; Memoirs of the Twentieth Century – Samuel Madden; Essay on Man (to 1744) – Alexander Pope 1734 in literature – Copies of Voltaire 's Letters on the English are burned, and a warrant is issued for the author's arrest.
A 17th-century English Baroque school using extended conceit, often (though not always) about religion [18] [19] John Donne, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell: Cavalier Poets: 17th-century English Baroque royalist poets, writing primarily about courtly love, called Sons of Ben (after Ben Jonson) [20] Richard Lovelace, William Davenant: Euphuism
Modernist poetry is a broad term for poetry written between 1890 and 1970 in the tradition of Modernist literature. [43] [44] Schools within it include already 20th-century Acmeist poetry, Imagism, Objectivism, and the British Poetry Revival.
This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:20th-century Black British writers and Category:20th-century British male writers and Category:20th-century British women writers The contents of these subcategories can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.