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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 .
This list includes notable authors, poets, playwrights, philosophers, artists, scientists and other important and noteworthy contributors to literature. Literature (from Latin litterae (plural); letters) is the art of written works. Literally translated, the word literature means "acquaintance with letters" (as in the "arts and letters").
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 ...
Sidney Keyes (1922–1943), English poet killed in action in World War II; Keorapetse Kgositsile (1938–2018), South African poet; Mimi Khalvati (born 1944), Iranian-born British poet; Dilwar Khan (1937–2013), Bangladeshi poet; Khushal Khan Khattak (1613–1689), Pashtun Afghan poet, warrior and tribal chief
العربية; Azərbaycanca; تۆرکجه; বাংলা; Башҡортса; Беларуская; Català; Чӑвашла; Čeština; Cymraeg; Español; فارسی
The Faerie Queene (Early Modern English) by Edmund Spenser (1596) Venus and Adonis (1593) and Lucrece (1594) (Early Modern English) by Shakespeare; The Dam San of the Ede people (now in Vietnam) is often considered to appear in the 16th or 17th century. [8] [9]
The poets Charles Olson (1910-1970) and J. H. Prynne (1936- ) are, amongst other writing in the second half of the 20th century, who have been described as late modernists. [ 9 ]
Poetry groups and movements or schools may be self-identified by the poets that form them or defined by critics who see unifying characteristics of a body of work by more than one poet. To be a 'school' a group of poets must share a common style or a common ethos.