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  Apollinaire, Guillaume
Crane, Hart
Cummings, E. E.
Doolittle, Hilda
Eliot, T. S.
Frost, Robert
  Hughes, Langston
Lowell, Amy
Loy, Mina
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Moore, Marianne
Owen, Wilfred
  Pound, Ezra
Sandburg, Carl
Stein, Gertrude
Teasdale, Sara
Williams, William Carlos
Yeats, William Butler


Modernist poetry refers specifically to poetry written between 1890 & 1970 in the tradition of Modernism. These are commonly said to use begun by owning a French Symbolist movement. Across good deal of the post-renaissance, poetry within the major European languages had focused in development of big shell prosodic structure, information & decoration, in the tradition that wwhen seen as stretching back to the works of Dante Alighieri and Petrarch. Per 19th century a large range of constituted forms & norms experienced been established inside French, English, German, Italian, Spanish & Russian, & these norms were a standard against which fresh works were estimated.
Modernism
A very brief definition of the literary term "Modernism."

Signifying Nothing: The Fourth Dimension in Modernist Art and Literature
This paper is part of a website entitled "The Fourth Dimension," which includes a small "Library" of poetry by Modernist poets of note (and a companion "Gallery" of Modernist art).

Petals on a Wet Black Bough
American Modernist Writers and the Orient - an exhibition at Yale that took place in 1996.


Society: Subcultures: Modernist






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