Although there is an obscurity about when it started and when it ended, modernism is one of the biggest leaps forward for the western culture. As branches like art, technology, religion and philosophy started to take a sharp turn. This era marked the rise of the United States, and resulted in the country having more influence in literature. Some notable writers are James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence, Joseph Conrad, Dorothy Richardson, Graham Greene, E.M. Forster, and Doris Lessing; the poets W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Seamus Heaney, Wilfred Owens, Dylan Thomas, and Robert Graves; and the dramatists Tom Stoppard, George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett, Frank McGuinness, Harold Pinter, and Caryl Churchill.
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