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A 1913 photograph of Ezra Pound, one of the most influential modernist poets. The roots of English-language poetic modernism can be traced back to the works of a number of earlier writers, including Walt Whitman, whose long lines approached a type of free verse, the prose poetry of Oscar Wilde, Robert Browning's subversion of the poetic self, Emily Dickinson's compression and the writings of ...
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 .
Acmeist poetry was a Russian modernist poetic school, which emerged c. 1911 and to symbols preferred direct expression through exact images. Figures involved with Acmeism include Nikolay Gumilev , Osip Mandelstam , Mikhail Kuzmin , Anna Akhmatova , and Georgiy Ivanov .
The Waste Land is a poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important English-language poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry. Published in 1922, the 434-line [ A ] poem first appeared in the United Kingdom in the October issue of Eliot's magazine The Criterion and in the United States in the November ...
Modernist literature originated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and is characterised by a self-conscious separation from traditional ways of writing in both poetry and prose fiction writing. Modernism experimented with literary form and expression, as exemplified by Ezra Pound's maxim to "Make it new". [1]
Modernist poetry in English is generally considered to have emerged in the early years of the 20th century with the first appearance of the Imagist poets. Although short-lived, the Imagist group were to prove highly influential and most subsequent English language modernist poets and poetic movements owed something to them.
Pages in category "Modernist poems" The following 56 pages are in this category, out of 56 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Acquainted with the Night;
"The Red Wheelbarrow" is a poem by American modernist poet William Carlos Williams.Originally published without a title, it was designated "XXII" in Williams' 1923 book Spring and All, a hybrid collection which incorporated alternating selections of free verse and prose.