Ezra Loomis Pound

Ezra Loomis Pound

male (Hailey, Idaho, United States)
poet, imagism, Critic, American expatriate in Italy, expatriate, Hamilton College alumni…modernist, modernistpoetry, Electronic Poetry Center
Ezra Pound was born on October 30, 1885 in the small mining town of Hailey, Idaho . He had an average middle-class childhood in Wyncote,...
T. S. Eliot

T. S. Eliot

male, deceased (1965)
Tradition and the Individual Talent, The Cocktail Party, Eliot family, Writer-illustrator, Murder in the Cathedral, From st. louis, missouri…modernistpoetry, Modernist poet
Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM (September 26 1888 – January 4 1965), was a poet, dramatist and literary critic. He received the Nobel Prize for Li...
William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams

male, deceased (1963)
Philadelphia writer, English American, New Jersey writer, Puerto Rican, American poet, University of Pennsylvania alumni…modernistpoetry, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winner
Dr. William Carlos Williams (sometimes known as WCW) (September 17, 1883 - March 4, 1963), was an American poet closely associated with modernism...
Charles Olson

Charles Olson

male, deceased (1970)
Harvard University alumni, Wesleyan University alumni, American, Beat Generation, Beat writer, Postmodernism…modernistpoetry, modernist, United States poetry, The New American Poetry 1945-1960
Charles Olson (27 December 1910 - 10 January 1970) was an important 2nd generation American modernist poet who was a crucial link between earlier...
Louis Zukofsky

Louis Zukofsky

male, deceased (1978)
Jewish, poet, writer, Jewish American, Columbia University alumni, objectivist…modernistpoetry, modernist, United States poetry
Louis Zukofsky was one of the most important second-generation American modernist poets. He was co-founder and primary theorist of the Objectivist...
Basil Bunting

Basil Bunting

male, deceased (1985)
Ackworth Old Scholar, Royal Grammar School, quaker, newcastle upon tyne, British, conscientious objector…modernistpoetry, modernist, Poetry Magazine
Basil Cheesman Bunting was a British modernist poet. He had a lifelong interest in music and this led him to emphasise the sonic qualities of...
Mina Loy

Mina Loy

female, deceased (1966)
Christian, Women poet, scientist, Playwright, novelist, English women writer…modernistpoetry, modernist, Modernist writer
Mina Loy (December 27, 1882 - September 25, 1966) was an artist, poet, playwright, novelist, Futurist, actor, Christian Scientist, designer of...
Charles Reznikoff

Charles Reznikoff

male, deceased (1976)
Jewish, poet, objectivist, Objectivist poet, modernistpoetry, American…Poetry Magazine, 2nd generation modernist poet
Charles Reznikoff (August 31, 1894 - January 22, 1976) was the poet for whom the term Objectivist was first coined. When asked by Harriet Munroe to...
David Jones

David Jones

male, deceased (1974)
Writer-illustrator, roman catholic church, painter, poet, World War I poet, Companion of Honour…modernistpoetry, modernist, as modernist as Joyce, Pound, or Cezanne
David Jones CH (1 November 1895 – 28 October 1974) was both an artist and one of the most important first generation British modernist poets. His wo...
Brian Coffey

Brian Coffey

male, deceased (1995)
Roman Catholic, Modernism, poet, writer, Irish, small press…Irish modernist poet, modernistpoetry
Brian Coffey (June 8, 1905 - April 14, 1995) was an Irish poet and publisher. His work was informed by his Catholicism and by his background in...