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Literary modernism has its origins in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, mainly in Europe and North America. Modernism is characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional styles of poetry and prose. Modernists experimented with literary form and expression, adhering to Ezra Pound's maxim to "Make it new". [1]
This is a list of major poets of the Modernist poetry This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
American modernist literature was a dominant trend in American literature between World War I and World War II. The modernist era highlighted innovation in the form and language of poetry and prose, as well as addressing numerous contemporary topics, such as race relations, gender and the human condition.
In particular the development of modern industrial societies and the rapid growth of cities, followed then by the horror of World War I, were among the factors that shaped Modernism. This is a partial list of modernist women writers. Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966), Russian poet; Ingeborg Bachmann (1926–1973), Austrian poet and author
Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. Born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (now part of Pittsburgh), and raised in Oakland, California, [1] Stein moved to Paris in 1903, and made France her home for the remainder of her life.
Taking this further, instead of attempting to impose some arbitrary 'end-date' on modernism, one may acknowledge the many writers after 1945 who resist easy inclusion into the category 'postmodern' and yet, heavily influenced by (say) American and/or European modernism, continued to manifest significant neo-modernist works, for instance Roy ...
T. S. Eliot: Modernism; Harold Bloom: Aestheticism; Susan Sontag: Against Interpretation, On Photography; John Updike: Literary realism/modernism and aestheticist critic; M. H. Abrams: The Mirror and the Lamp (study of Romanticism) F. O. Matthiessen: originated the concept "American Renaissance" Perry Miller: Puritan studies
It was a modernist reaction to the conservative The Movement [128] [129] J. H. Prynne, Eric Mottram, Tom Raworth, Denise Riley, Lee Harwood: Language poets: An avantgardist group or tendency in American poetry that emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s with the poem as a construction in and of language itself [130]