Historical overview of English literature

8. 9- Modernist period (1914-1945?)

British modernist writers include W. B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney, Dylan Thomas, W. H. Auden, Virginia Woolf, and Wilfred Owen. America modernist writers include Robert Frost, Flannery O'Connor and writers of The Lost Generation: Hemingway, Stein, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner, in addition to "The Harlem Renaissance" writers like Baldwin and Ellison