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Modernist literature: Quick Facts

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Gertrude Stein, 1935
Poetry magazine
Sylvia Beach stands in the doorway of Shakespeare and Company bookshop in Paris, holding a book, with the shop's name visible above the entrance.
Rubén Darío
Blast (1915)
Virginia Woolf, 1928
Oeuvres complètes de Jules Laforgue
Colette, c. 1910
Luigi Russolo, Carlo Carra, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Umberto Boccioni, and Gino Severini, founders of the Futurist Movement, stand side by side in coats and hats.
Italian postage stamp featuring Filippo Marinetti's Futurist artwork The Gunners Letter, with dynamic black text and shapes and red text reading Italia L.150 at the bottom.
Color illustration of Countee Cullen in profile, set against a purple background with white floral and maplike designs.
Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby raises a champagne glass, with 'The Great Gatsby' book cover superimposed and an arrow pointing to it.
The video thumbnail image shows a black and white image of Robert Frost against a sepia-toned background.
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