List of English-language first and second generation modernist writers
- Richard Aldington
- Djuna Barnes
- Samuel Beckett
- Kay Boyle
- Basil Bunting
- Brian Coffey
- e. e. cummings
- Denis Devlin
- T. S. Eliot
- F. S. Flint
- H.D
- David Jones
- James Joyce
- Wyndham Lewis
- Amy Lowell
- Mina Loy
- Robert McAlmon
- Hugh MacDiarmid
- Thomas McGreevy
- Marianne Moore
- Lorine Niedecker
- Charles Olson
- Mary Devenport O'Neill
- George Oppen
- Ezra Pound
- Carl Rakosi
- Kenneth Rexroth
- Charles Reznikoff
- Dorothy Richardson
- Blanaid Salkeld
- Gertrude Stein
- Wallace Stevens
- Rebecca West
- William Carlos Williams
- Virginia Woolf
- William Faulkner