A New Kind of Literary Pulse

The American novelist and short story writer, Sherwood Anderson, was a self educated author whose prose style was based on everyday speech. His subjective and self revealing works strongly influenced American writing during the interwar period. They had an impact on noteworthy authors, such as Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner, whose first books he helped publish.

Thomas Stearns Eliot was one of America's major and most well known 20th century poets. He is especially recognized for his poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," said to be a masterpiece of the Modernist movement. Eliot was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948 for his incredible contribution to present-day poetry.

Virginia Woolf was an English writer whose best known novel is Mrs Dalloway. She is considered to be one of the leading modernists of the 20th century and a pioneer in the use of the stream of consciousness. Her novels, through their non linear approches to narrative, exerted a major influence on the genre. In the 1970s, she became one of the main subjects of feminist criticism.

W. W. Jacobs was an English author of short stories and novels. Even though most of his work was written in a humourous tone, he is nowadays remembered as the creator of "The Monkey’s Paw". That classic horror short story is written in the dickensian tradition, that is to say that it uses a gentle humour and focuses on the poor social condition of the White Families.

Willa Cather was an American writer who was well known for her Prairy Trilogy, novels about frontier life on the Great Prairie. She was also awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for her novel One of Ours, set during Word War I.

William Butler Yeats was regarded as one of the greatest English writing poets of the 20th century. That Irish poet, he was also one of the driving forces behind the Irish Literary Revival. That literary movement was associated with the growth of Irish nationalism and linked with a revival of interest in Ireland’s Gaelic heritage. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in the year 1923.

An editor, anthologist, critic, and published poet himself, Braithwaite was a key figure in the revival of American poetry in the early decades of the twentieth century. From 1913 to 1929 he published the Anthology of Magazine Verse, an important annual collection that showcased the work of emerging poets on the American scene. "At a critical moment in our nation's literature, it was his voice ... [+]