Modernist poetry
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Modernist poetry refers to poetry written between 1890 and 1930 in the tradition of modernist literature; the dates of the term depend upon a number of factors, including the nation of origin, the particular school in question, and the biases of the critic setting the dates. It is usually said to have begun with the French Symbolist movement. Through much of the post-renaissance, poetry in the major European languages had focused on development of large scale prosodic structure, reference and ornament, in a tradition that was seen as stretching back to the works of Dante Alighieri and Petrarch. By the 19th century a large range of established forms and norms had been established in French, English, German, Italian, Spanish and Russian, and these norms were the standard against which new works were judged.
Overview
Marjorie Perloff's course of anthologies
there was little doubt as to the position of the Great Modernist Precursors. True, one could quarrel as to the relative merits of Robert Frost or of e. e. cummings, true such forgotten women poets as Mina Loy and Laura Riding Jackson had not yet been rediscovered. But whose list did not include Eliot and Pound, Stevens and Williams, Moore and H.D., Gertrude Stein and Hart Crane? Add to these the English poet Auden, the French Valéry and Reverdy, Apollinaire and Cendrars, the German Rilke, Trakl, and Brecht, the Spanish Lorca, and Argentinian Neruda, and you have a pretty fixed notion of what Modernism-in-Poetry would look like. . . . such 'forerunners' of Modernism as Blake, Hölderlin, Dickinson and Rimbaud through the Futurisms, Dada, Surrealism, and Objectivism . . .
Others:
- Russians: Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian Symbolism, Valery Bryusov, Maximilian Voloshin, Osip Mandelstam, Acmeist poetry, Boris Pasternak, Anna Akhmatova
- Americans: Fugitives (poets)
- English: Yvor Winters, Cecil Day-Lewis, Cecil Day-Lewis#A New Anthology of Modern Verse 1920-1940 (1941), Cecil Day-Lewis#The Chatto Book of Modern Poetry 1915-1955 (1956), Louis MacNeice, Stephen Spender
- French: Rimbaud and modern culture, Paul Verlaine, Stéphane Mallarmé, Charles Baudelaire
- Spanish and Latin American:
- Italian:
- Polish:
- German: Hermann Hesse, Paul Celan, Expressionism
See also
- Modernist poetry in English
- Modernist poetry in French
- Modernist poetry in German
- Modernist poetry in Italian
- Modernist poetry in Polish
- Modernist poetry in Russia
- Modernist poetry in Spanish
- Dada
- Symbolism
- The Blue Rider
- Oulipo
- List of modernist poets
- List of English-language first and second generation modernist writers
