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
• HD
• 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