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[3] But modernism was already stirring by 1899, with works such as Joseph Conrad's (1857–1924) Heart of Darkness, while Alfred Jarry's (1873–1907) absurdist play, Ubu Roi appeared even earlier, in 1896. Knut Hamsun's (1859–1952) Hunger (1890) is a groundbreaking modernist novel and Mysteries (1892) pioneers modernist stream 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 .
Modernist women writers (4 C, 71 P) Pages in category "Modernist writers" The following 120 pages are in this category, out of 120 total.
James Joyce was a major modernist writer whose strategies employed in his novel Ulysses (1922) for depicting the events during a twenty-four-hour period in the life of his protagonist, Leopold Bloom, have come to epitomize modernism's approach to fiction. The poet T. S. Eliot described these qualities in 1923, noting that Joyce's technique is ...
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.
A group of left and anarchist writers living in Paris in the 1930s, largely influenced by Surrealism [104] Henry Miller, Lawrence Durrell, Anaïs Nin, Alfred Perles: Objectivism: A loose-knit modernist mainly American group from the 1930s.
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 ...
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