American literary movements

literary movement

generation that came of age during World War I, born from 1883 to 1900

thumb|The expatriate American poet Ezra Pound in 1913; Pound collected poems from eleven poets in his first anthology of Imagist poetry, [[Des Imagistes, published in 1914.]] Imagism was a movement in early-20th-century poetry that favoured precision of imagery and clear, sharp language. It is considered the first organized modernist literary movement in the English language. Imagism has been termed "a succession of creative moments" rather than a continuous or sustained period of development. The French academic René Taupin remarked that "it is more accurate to consider Imagism not as a doctr

African-American cultural movement in New York City in the 1920s

movement in 20th-century poetry

subgenre of literature

Group of avant-garde American poets

group of American poets, painters, dancers, and musicians active in the 1950s and 1960s in New York City

American avant-garde cultural activity in San Francisco as an historical hub

group of actors, critics, wits, and writers.

literary group

artistic and philosophical movement

group of mid-20th-century American postmodern poets

African American–led art movement, active between the 1960s and 1970s

avant-garde poetry movement of the early 21st century

American literature about the Southern United States; literature by writers from that region

movement in American poetry since the 1970s