List of modernist poets

This is a list of major poets of the Modernist poetry.

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English-language Modernist poets

Marion Angus W. H. Auden Djuna Barnes Rupert Brooke Basil Bunting Hart Crane E. E. Cummings H.D. Cecil Day-Lewis T. S. Eliot Roy Fisher Robert Frost Robert Graves Robert Hayden Gerard Manley Hopkins (precursor) A. E. Housman Langston Hughes T. E. Hulme David Jones Rudyard Kipling D. H. Lawrence Vachel Lindsay Amy Lowell Mina Loy

Hugh MacDiarmid Archibald MacLeish Louis MacNeice Marianne Moore Vladimir Nabokov Wilfred Owen Dorothy Parker Mario Petrucci Ezra Pound E. A. Robinson Edna St. Vincent Millay Delmore Schwartz Edith Sitwell Kenneth Slessor Gertrude Stein Wallace Stevens Allen Tate Robert Penn Warren William Carlos Williams Yvor Winters W. B. Yeats Louis Zukofsky

European Modernist poets

Guillaume Apollinaire Louis Aragon Gottfried Benn André Breton Constantine Cavafy René Char Charles Baudelaire Robert Desnos Gunnar Ekelöf Paul Éluard Georg Heym Jakob van Hoddis Max Jacob Srečko Kosovel Benjamin Péret Saint-John Perse Fernando Pessoa Jacques Prévert

Pierre Reverdy Rainer Maria Rilke Arthur Rimbaud Else Lasker-Schüler Federico García Lorca Artur Lundkvist Stéphane Mallarmé Harry Martinson Henri Michaux Birger Sjöberg August Stramm Giorgos Seferis Philippe Soupault Jules Supervielle Edith Södergran Georg Trakl Paul Valéry

Russian-language Modernist poets

Anna Akhmatova Alexander Blok Vasilisk Gnedov Nikolay Gumilev Georgiy Ivanov Rurik Ivnev Velimir Khlebnikov Aleksei Kruchyonykh Mikhail Kuzmin

Osip Mandelstam Anatoly Marienhof Vladimir Mayakovsky Vladimir Nabokov Igor Severyanin Sergei Yesenin

See also

• Modernist poetry
• Modernism
• Modernist literature
• List of modernist writers
• List of poetry groups and movements

Sources

• Willhardt, Mark; Parker, Alan Michael, eds. (2001). Who's Who in Twentieth Century World Poetry. Who's Who Series. London: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203991992. ISBN 0-415-16355-2.