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Modernism

10 poetas, 1874 – 1972

  1. Robert Frost

    1874 – 1963

    Robert Frost, the poet traditionally associated with New England, was born on the West coast, in San Francisco, on March 26, 1874. He was the second child of Scottish born Isabelle Moodie, a quiet, sensitive and mystically inclined woman, and William Prescott Frost Jr., a Phi…

  2. Ezra Pound

    1885 – 1972

    Ezra Pound is a pivotal figure in the horizon of twentieth-century European culture. He contributed to the birth and development of the modernist moment. Pound's achievement in and for culture was manifold. He was not only a prominent poet who forged a new poetic idiom, but also…

  3. H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)

    Having rejected Victorian norms for modern experiments, H. D. repeatedly launched out from instructors found among the early canonized male modernists. She developed new lyric, mythic, and mystical forms in poetry and prose, and an alternative bisexual lifestyle that were little…

  4. T. S. Eliot

    1888 – 1965

    Elliot, T. S. (26 Sept. 1888-4 Jan. 1965), poet, critic, and editor, was born Thomas Stearns Eliot in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Henry Ware Eliot, president of the Hydraulic-Press Brick Company, and Charlotte Champe Stearns, a former teacher, an energetic social work…

  5. William Carlos Williams

    1883 – 1963

    Williams was a medical student at the University of Pennsylvania, where he began his lifelong friendship with Pound (a 'special student' there) and H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), the daughter of an astronomer whose observatory was associated with the university. Williams had a serious…

  6. Wallace Stevens

    1879 – 1955

    Stevens was born in Reading, Pennsylvania on October 2, 1879, and died at the age of seventy-six in Hartford, Connecticut on August 2, 1955. He attended Harvard as a special student from 1897 to 1900 but did not graduate; he graduated from New York law school in 1903 and was…

  7. Marianne Moore

    1887 – 1972

    She was born Marianne Craig Moore in Kirkland, Missouri, the daughter of John Milton Moore, a construction engineer and inventor, and Mary Warner. Moore had an older brother, John Warner Moore. She never met her father; before her birth his invention of a smokeless furnace…

  8. E. E. Cummings

    1894 – 1962

    Cummings, E. E., (14 Oct. 1894- 3 Sept. 1962), poet and painter, was born Edward Estlin Cummings in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the son of Edward Cummings, a Unitarian minister of the South Congregational Church in Boston, and Rebecca Haswell Clarke. Cummings's mother encouraged…

  9. Langston Hughes

    1902 – 1967

    "In terms of current Afro-American popular music and the sources from which it has progressed - jazz, ragtime, swing, blues, boogie-woogie, and be-bop - this poem on contemporary Harlem, like be-bop, is marked by conflicting changes, sudden nuances, sharp and impudent…

  10. Hart Crane

    1899 – 1932

    Hart Crane enjoys the dubious privilege of being possibly the most difficult figure to pinpoint in American letters. Even his literary reputation remains unclear after so many years, and in many ways it is only natural that it should be so: America is a country that bears a most…