1901-1940

An artistic philosophy that took hold in 1920s Paris, affirming the supremacy of the “disinterested play of thought” and the “omnipotence of dreams” rather than reason and logic.

The term Objectivism was originally coined by William Carlos Williams to mean looking at a poem “with a special eye to its structural aspect, how it has been constructed.” 

A broadly defined multinational cultural movement (or series of movements) that took hold in the late 19th century as a re-evaluation of the assumptions and aesthetic values of artistic predecessors.

A group of Southern poets associated with the "Fugitive," a literary magazine produced in the early 1920s.

An early 20th-century poetic movement that relied on the resonance of concrete images drawn in precise, colloquial language rather than traditional poetic diction and meter.

A poetic movement in England during the reign of George V (1910–1936) that included poets such as Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon, and Walter de la Mare.