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Gertrude Stein, 1935 Poetry magazine
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The Great Gatsby: From flop to Great American Novel
How did Gatsby become so…great?
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Robert Frost: Most famous poet in America? 
Ever attended a poetry reading in an arena?
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Explore the works and influence of Virginia Woolf
Learn about Virginia Woolf's attempts to capture life's fleeting moments through...
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Gertrude Stein, 1935
American writer Gertrude Stein was a self-styled genius who coined the term Lost...
Carl Van Vechten/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-USZ62-103680)
Poetry magazine
Cover page of the October 1916 issue of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, edited...
From Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, Volume IX, No. 1 edited by Harriet Monroe, October 1916
Sylvia Beach and Shakespeare and Company
American publisher Sylvia Beach standing in the doorway of her bookshop, Shakespeare...
© Pictorial Parade/Hulton Archive—Archive Photos/Getty Images
Rubén Darío
Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío was the leader of Modernismo, a Latin American literary...
Courtesy of the Archivo General de la Nación, Buenos Aires
Blast (1915)
Cover of the second (1915) edition of Blast, a little magazine edited by...
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Virginia Woolf, 1928
English novelist Virginia Woolf produced some of the most daring fiction of the 20th...
New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (neg. no. LC-USZ62-111438)
Oeuvres complètes de Jules Laforgue
Title page of Oeuvres complètes de Jules Laforgue, published by Société...
From Oeuvres complètes de Jules Laforgue (Société du Mercure de France, Paris: 1903)
Colette, c. 1910
French writer Colette was one of the outstanding writers in French literature of...
Musée Carnavalet, Histoire de Paris, Paris Musées
Futurists
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (center), the founder of the Futurist movement, with the...
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Postage stamp of Futurist “free-word picture”
A 1976 postage stamp from Italy depicting “In the Evening, Lying on Her Bed, She...
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Anna Akhmatova
Russian poet Anna Akhmatova was a member of the Acmeist movement in Russian literature.
Novosti Press Agency
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Russian Futurist poet Vladimir Mayakovsky was a leading poet of the Russian...
Novosti Press Agency
Fernando Pessoa
Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa depicted on a banknote from Portugal.
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Die Verwandlung (The Metamorphosis)
Cover of 1916 edition of Die Verwandlung (1915; The Metamorphosis)...
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Thomas Mann
German novelist Thomas Mann's great works include Der Zauberberg (1924; The...
Carl Van Vechten Collection/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (digital file no. LC-USZ62-42522)

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Bloomsday map of Dublin, Ireland
An interactive map of James Joyce's Dublin from June 16, 1904, the date on which...
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