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Harriet Monroe founded Poetry magazine in Chicago in 1912 and made it the most important organ for poetry not just in the United States but for the English-speaking world.

During the 1920s Edna St. Vincent Millay, Marianne Moore, and E.E. Cummings expressed a spirit of revolution and experimentation in their poetry.

Drama came to prominence for the first time in the United States in the early 20th century. Playwrights drew inspiration from European theater but created plays that were uniquely and enduringly American.

Eugene O’Neill was the foremost American playwright of the period. His

Long Day’s Journey into Night (written 1939–41, performed 1956) was the high point of more than 20 years of creativity that began in 1920 with Beyond the Horizon and concluded with The Iceman Cometh (written 1939, performed 1946).

During the 1930s Lillian Hellman, Clifford Odets, and Langston Hughes wrote plays that exposed injustice in America.

Thornton Wilder presented a realistic (and enormously influential) vision of small-town America in Our Town, first produced in 1938.

5.1 List of the most prominent writers and authors of the modernist period in

American literature (1910-1945)

Booker Taliaferro Washington (1856-1915)

W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963)

James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)

Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)

Ellen Glasgow (1873-1945)

Edith Wharton (1862-1937)

Edgar Lee Masters (1869-1950)

Willa Cather (1873-1947)

Susan Glaspell (1876-1948)

Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962)

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Robert Frost (1874-1963)

Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941)

Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)

Ezra Pound (1885-1972)

Amy Lowell (1874-1925)

Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)

William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)

Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953)

Djuna Barnes (1892-1982)

Elizabeth Madox Roberts (1881-1941)

H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886-1961)

A Sheaf of Political Poetry in the Modern Period:

Joseph Kalar

Kenneth Fearing

Alfred Hayes

Tillie Lerner Olsen (or see below)

Kay Boyle

Langston Hughes (or see below)

Lola Ridge

Edwin Rolfe

Genevieve Taggard

E. E. Cummings (1894-1962)

T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)

Katharine Anne Porter (1890-1980)

Marianne Moore (1887-1972)

Louise Bogan (1897-1970)

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

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Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)

William Faulkner (1897-1962)

Hart Crane (1899-1932)

Alain Locke (1885-1954)

Jean Toomer (1894-1967)

Langston Hughes (1902-1967)

Countee Cullen (1903-1946)

Gwendolyn B. Bennett (1902-1981)

Arna Bontemps (1902-1973)

Sterling A. Brown (1901-1989)

Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)

Claude McKay (1889-1948)

Anne Spencer (1882-1975)

Nella Larsen (1891-1964)

George Samuel Schuyler (1895-1977)

Blues Lyrics

Randolph Bourne (1886-1918)

Anzia Yezierska (1881?-1970)

Michael Gold (1893-1967)

John Dos Passos (1896-1970)

Albert Maltz (1908-1985)

Lillian Hellman (1905-1984)

Mary McCarthy (1912-1989)

Clifford Odets (1906-1963)

Meridel LeSueur (b.1900)

Mourning Dove (Okanogan)(1888-1936)

John Joseph Mathews (Osage) (1894-1979)

Thomas S. Whitecloud (Chippewa) (1914-1972)

D'Arcy McNickle (1904-1977)

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Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989)

John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974)

Allen Tate (1899-1979)

Charles Reznikoff (1894-1976)

Louis Zukofsky ((1904-1978)

John Steinbeck (1902-1968)

Richard Wright (1908-1960)

Margaret Walker (b.1915)

Saunders Redding (1906-1988)

Pietro di Donato (1911-1992)

Younghill Kang (1903-1972)

Carved on the Walls: Poetry by Early Chinese Immigrants.

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CONCLUSION

Summing up, we can say that the tasks assigned to the author of the study have been completed. Specifically, we examined and analyzed The Modernist Period in American literature from 1910 to 1945. As a historical introduction for the period as a whole is presented, the biography of one of the most important writers of this period, Robert Frost, is also discussed. Literary Themes also were analyzed. The most prominent faces of this period, their writers, and their most important activities in describing the disappointment and loss in the American Modernist imagination towards American society and civilization are also covered.

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