<P> In addition to W.B. Yeats other important early modernists poets were the American - born poet T.S. Eliot (1888--1965) Eliot became a British citizen in 1927 but was born and educated in America . His most famous works are: "Prufrock" (1915), The Wasteland (1922) and Four Quartets (1935--42). </P> <P> Amongst the novelists, after Joseph Conrad, other important early modernists include Dorothy Richardson (1873--1957), whose novel Pointed Roof (1915), is one of the earliest example of the stream of consciousness technique, and D.H. Lawrence (1885--1930), who published The Rainbow in 1915 - though it was immediately seized by the police - and Women in Love in 1920 . Then in 1922 Irishman James Joyce's important modernist novel Ulysses appeared . Ulysses has been called "a demonstration and summation of the entire movement". </P> <P> The modernist movement continued through the 1920s, 1930s and beyond . </P> <P> Important British writers between the World Wars, include the Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid (1892--1978), who began publishing in the 1920s, and novelist Virginia Woolf (1882--1941), who was an influential feminist, and a major stylistic innovator associated with the stream - of - consciousness technique in novels like Mrs Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927). T.S. Eliot had begun this attempt to revive poetic drama with Sweeney Agonistes in 1932, and this was followed by others including three further plays after the war . In Parenthesis, a modernist epic poem based on author David Jones's (1895--1974) experience of World War I, was published in 1937 . </P>

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