Modernist poetry is a general umbrella term for poets writing in the first decades of the twentieth century, often with assumptions of shared aesthetic priorities.
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| Title | Modernist | Type of Content | School of Poetry |
| Number/Poets | 27 | Number/Members | 1 |
| Originally Posted | 17 Apr 2013 | Number/Content | 27 |
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| Creator | Modern American... | Tags | modernist |
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Poet Listing
Aaron Kramer
Among progressive modern American poets working with social and political themes and using traditional forms, Aaron Kramer may well be the single most accomplished figure.
Group/School:
Modernist
Race/Ethnicity: European
Gender:
Male
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Amy Lowell
Lowell was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, of a family long influential in New England commerce, history, and culture.
Group/School:
Modernist
Race/Ethnicity: European
Gender:
Female
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Archibald MacLeish
Born and raised in Illinois, MacLeish was educated at Yale University and Harvard Law School. He lived in Paris in the early 1920s after frontline service in World War I.
Group/School:
Modernist
Race/Ethnicity: European
Gender:
Male
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Carl Sandburg
Born in Galesburg, Illinois, and educated at Lombard College, Carl Sandburg for many years was drawn both to America's most radical union, the Industrial Workers of the World, and also to internati
Group/School:
Modernist
Race/Ethnicity: Western European
Gender:
Male
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E. E. Cummings
E.(Edward) E.(Estlin) Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard.
Group/School:
Modernist
Race/Ethnicity: European
Gender:
Male
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Edgar Lee Masters
With its concise and telling graveyard epitaphs, Masters's 1915 collection, Spoon River Anthology, established his reputation and remains his best-known work.
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Modernist
Race/Ethnicity: European
Gender:
Male
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
Born in Rockland, Maine, Millay was educated at Vassar.
Group/School:
Modernist
Race/Ethnicity: European
Gender:
Female
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Edwin Markham
Charles Edward Anson Markham was born in Oregon City, in the Oregon Territory, but his mother took him to a farm at Suisun, California, in 1856.
Group/School:
Modernist
Race/Ethnicity: Western European
Gender:
Male
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Elinor Wylie
Elinor Wylie was born in New Jersey and grew up in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., the child of a prominent family.
Group/School:
Modernist
Race/Ethnicity: European
Gender:
Female
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Ezra Pound
Perhaps no other major modern American poet's work is so deeply and irreducibly conflicted.
Group/School:
Modernist
Race/Ethnicity: European
Gender:
Male
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Gertrude Stein
Born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, Gertrude Stein and her six siblings were left alone when her mother died in 1888 and her father died in 1891.
Group/School:
Modernist
Race/Ethnicity: European
Gender:
Female
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Harry Crosby
There is no other poet in our history quite like Harry Crosby.
Group/School:
Modernist
Race/Ethnicity: Western European
Gender:
Male
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Hart Crane
Born in a small Ohio town, Hart Crane grew up in Cleveland.
Group/School:
Modernist
Race/Ethnicity: European
Gender:
Male
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Isaac Rosenberg
Before being killed in the Battle of Arras, Rosenberg wrote a cluster of bitterly ironic poems layered with direct experience of trench warfare.
Group/School:
Modernist
Race/Ethnicity: Eastern European
Gender:
Male
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Louise Bogan
Louise Bogan was born in Livermore Falls, Maine. Her parents, of Irish descent, travelled across New England in search of work and endured a tempestuous marriage.
Group/School:
Modernist
Race/Ethnicity: Western European
Gender:
Female
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Marianne Moore
Born in Kirkwood, Missouri, and raised in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Moore was educated at Bryn Mawr College and Carlisle Commercial College.
Group/School:
Modernist
Race/Ethnicity: Western European
Gender:
Female
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Mina Loy
Born in England, Loy studied art in Germany, France, and Britain and continued to paint thereafter.
Group/School:
Modernist
Race/Ethnicity: European
Gender:
Female
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Paul Violi
Born in New York City, raised on Long Island, and educated at Boston University, Paul Violi worked as managing editor of Architectural Forum, on various special projects for Universal Limi
Group/School:
Modernist
Race/Ethnicity: European
Gender:
Male
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Robert Frost
Frost was born and spent his first eleven years in San Francisco. At that point, his father, a journalist, died and the family moved to New England.
Group/School:
Modernist
Race/Ethnicity: Western European
Gender:
Male
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