MODERN PERIOD (c. 1914-1945?)
In Britain, modernist writers include W. B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney, Dylan Thomas, W. H. Auden, Virginia Woolf,
and Wilfred Owen. In America, the modernist period includes Robert Frost and Flannery O'Connor as well as the
famous writers of The Lost Generation (also called the writers of The Jazz Age, 1914-1929) such as Hemingway,
Stein, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner. "The Harlem Renaissance" marks the rise of black writers such as Baldwin and
Ellison. Realism is the dominant fashion, but the disillusionment with the World Wars lead to new experimentation.
Modern Characteristics
Authors:
William Butler Yeats
Seamus Heaney
Dylan Thomas
W. H. Auden
Robert Frost
Flannery O'Conner
Ernest Hemingway
Gertrude Stein
James Baldwin
Ralph Ellison
Seamus Heaney
Dylan Thomas
W. H. Auden
Robert Frost
Flannery O'Conner
Ernest Hemingway
Gertrude Stein
James Baldwin
Ralph Ellison