NAQT You Gotta Know - Modernist Authors

Wrote the seven-volume novel, "A la recherche du temps perdu," or, "Remembrance of Things Past"/"In Search of Lost Time," concerning the nature of involuntary memory. Other works include, "Swann's Way," and "The Guermantes Way."

An American born and raised, but moved to Paris in 1903, where she established a salon at 27 Rue de Fleur us that was a meeting place for many modernist intellectuals. Used lots of repetitive language in her works. Some of her works include, "Sacred Emily," and "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas."

Insurance executive by trade who wrote poetry in his spare time. His collection "Harmonium" includes the poem "The Emperor of Ice-Cream," beginning with "call the roller of big cigars." He also wrote, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," and "The Idea of Order at Key West."

Honed the used of stream-of-consciousness as a literary technique to render the immediate thoughts and feeling of her characters. Her novel, Mrs. Dalloway intertwines the narratives of Clarissa Dalloway's preparations for hosting a party and the last days of the shell-shocked veteran Septimus Smith. Examined obstacles facing women writers, like a fictional sister of William Shakespeare, named Judith, in her essay, "A Room of One's Own."

Wrote an adaptation of Homer's "Odyssey" set in his native Dublin, titled Ulysses. It follows Leopold Bloom around the city on June 16, 1904. His wife, Molly, is modeled after this Authors real wife, Nora Barnacle, and the novel also features Stephen Dedalus, the protagonist of this authors debut novel "A Portrait of a Young Man." His short story, Dubliners, ends with the novella, "The Dead."

Wrote, "Lady Chatterley's Lover," concerning an affair between Constance Reid, whose husband Clifford is paralyzed by an injury during World War 1, and her estate's gamekeeper, Oliver Mellors. Also wrote "The Rainbow" and "The Rocking Horse-Winner."

Developed Imagism, a poetic movement that emphasized sharp language and clear, precise imagery, as shown in his poem, "In a Station of the Metro." Edited and arranged for the publication of some of the most famous poems by his younger contemporary, T.S. Eliot

Wrote influential modernist poem "The Waste Land," which he dedicated to Ezra Pound, beginning with, "April is the cruelest month." Other poems include, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," and "The Hollow Men."

Best known for eschewing standard capitalization and punctuation in his poetry. His poems include "anyone lived in a pretty how town," which describes how "anyone" was largely ignored and forgotten by the residents of the small town where he lived, and "I sing of Olaf glad and big" about a conscientious objector who is violently punished for his refusal to serve or display patriotism. Wrote "The Enormous Room," his only novel.

Best known for his modernist epic poem, "The Bridge," whose thematic centerpiece is Brooklyn Bridge. It coined the term "Appalachian Spring," which Martha Graham chose to title the 1944 ballet she choreographed to music by Aaron Copland.