The Modernists

(1910-~1945)


T.S. Eliot

Here he is, the "personality" (pace "Tradition and the Individual Talent") who drove the average intelligent American reader from the "province" of poetry.

Robert Frost

A good site of sites. See also The Robert Frost Page

William Carlos Williams

This is an enormous page that will send you elsewhere for Williams links and links to other modernist poets as well. Also see the William Carlos Williams Review (scholarly articles) here.

Ezra Pound

Wallace Stevens

Read some classic Stevens poems here

William Faulkner

This is some website. U Miss has done an amazing thing here.

Gertrude Stein

This sappho.com page is just fine for a survey introduction to Stein's work. A brief biography, links to many other sources, including online texts of Tender Buttons.

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