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Modernist poetry refers to poetry written between 1890 and 1930 in the tradition of modernist literature
Modernist literature

Modernist literature is the literary expression of the tendencies of Modernism, especially High modernism.Modernism as a literary movement reached its height in Europe between 1900 and the middle 1920s....
; the dates of the term depend upon a number of factors, including the nation of origin, the particular school in question, and the biases of the critic setting the dates. It is usually said to have begun with the French Symbolist
Symbolism (arts)

Symbolism was a late nineteenth-century art movement of French and Belgium origin in symbolist poetry and other arts....
 movement. Through much of the post-renaissance
Renaissance

The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe....
, poetry in the major European languages had focused on development of large scale prosodic structure, reference and ornament, in a tradition that was seen as stretching back to the works of Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri

Durante degli Alighieri , commonly known as Dante Alighieri, was a Florence poet of the Middle Ages. His Magnum opus, the Divine Comedy , is often considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature....
 and Petrarch
Petrarch

Francesco Petrarca , known in English language as Petrarch, was an Italy scholar, poet and one of the earliest Renaissance humanism. Petrarch is often popularly called the "Father of Humanism"....
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Modernist poetry refers to poetry written between 1890 and 1930 in the tradition of modernist literature
Modernist literature

Modernist literature is the literary expression of the tendencies of Modernism, especially High modernism.Modernism as a literary movement reached its height in Europe between 1900 and the middle 1920s....
; the dates of the term depend upon a number of factors, including the nation of origin, the particular school in question, and the biases of the critic setting the dates. It is usually said to have begun with the French Symbolist
Symbolism (arts)

Symbolism was a late nineteenth-century art movement of French and Belgium origin in symbolist poetry and other arts....
 movement. Through much of the post-renaissance
Renaissance

The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe....
, poetry in the major European languages had focused on development of large scale prosodic structure, reference and ornament, in a tradition that was seen as stretching back to the works of Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri

Durante degli Alighieri , commonly known as Dante Alighieri, was a Florence poet of the Middle Ages. His Magnum opus, the Divine Comedy , is often considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature....
 and Petrarch
Petrarch

Francesco Petrarca , known in English language as Petrarch, was an Italy scholar, poet and one of the earliest Renaissance humanism. Petrarch is often popularly called the "Father of Humanism"....
. By the 19th century
19th century in literature

See also: 18th century in literature, 19th century, 20th century in literature, list of years in literature.Literature of the 19th century refers to world literature produced during the 19th century....
 a large range of established forms and norms had been established in French, English, German, Italian, Spanish and Russian, and these norms were the standard against which new works were judged.

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    Modernist poetry in English

    Modernist poetry in English is generally considered to have emerged in the early years of the 20th century in literature with the appearance of the Imagism....
  • Modernist poetry in French
  • Modernist poetry in German
  • Modernist poetry in Italian
  • Modernist poetry in Polish
  • Modernist poetry in Russia
  • Modernist poetry in Spanish
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  • Symbolism
    Symbolism (arts)

    Symbolism was a late nineteenth-century art movement of French and Belgium origin in symbolist poetry and other arts....
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    Oulipo

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  • List of modernist poets
    List of modernist poets

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  • List of English-language first and second generation modernist writers
    List of English-language first and second generation modernist writers

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