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Significant modernist literary works continued to be created in the 1920s and 1930s, including further novels by Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, Robert Musil, and Dorothy Richardson.

The American modernist dramatist Eugene O ' Neill's, career began in 1914, but his major works appeared in the 1920s and 1930s and early 1940s.

Two other significant modernist dramatists writing in the 1920s and 1930s were Bertolt Brecht and Federico García Lorca.

D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover was privately published in 1928, while another important landmark for the history of the modern novel came with the publication of William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury in 1929.

In the 1930s, in addition to further major works by Faulkner, Samuel Beckett's published his first major work, the novel Murphy ( 1938 ).

Then in 1939 James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake appeared.

In poetry T. S. Eliot, E. E. Cummings, and Wallace Stevens were writing from the 1920s until the 1950s.

While modernist poetry in English is often viewed as an American phenomenon, with leading exponents including Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, H. D., and Louis Zukofsky, there were important British modernist poets, including David Jones, Hugh MacDiarmid, Basil Bunting, and W. H. Auden.

European modernist poets include Federico García Lorca, Anna Akhmatova, Constantine Cavafy, and Paul Valéry.