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
• 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
• 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.