- Romanticism - 19th century movement emphasizing emotion and imagination
- Victor Hugo
- Lord Byron
- Mary Shelley
- Washington Irving
- Gothic - Romantic ideals are combined with an interest in the supernatural and in violence.
- Ann Radcliffe
- Bram Stoker
- Horace Walpole
- Transcendentalism - 19th-century American movement: poetry and philosophy concerned with self-reliance and independence from modern technology
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Henry David Thoreau
- Walt Whitman
- Dark Romanticism - Finds man inherently sinful and self-destructive and nature a dark, mysterious force.
- Edgar Allen Poe
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Realism - Based on a simplification of style and image and an interest in poverty and everyday concerns
- Mark Twain
- Henry James
- Leo Tolstoy
- Stream of Consciousness - Early-20th century fiction consisting of literary representations of quotidian thought, without authorial presence.
- Virginia Woolf
- James Joyce
- William Faulkner
- Modernism - Encompassing primitivism, formal innovation, or reaction to science and technology.
- Ezra Pound
- Gertrude Stein
- T.S. Elliot
- Fernando Pessoa
- The Lost Generation - A group of American literary notables who lived in Paris and other parts of Europe from the time period which saw the end of World War I to the beginning of the Great Depression.
- Ernest Hemingway
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Stridentism - Mexican artistic avant-garde movement. They exalted modern urban life and social revolution.
- Manuel Maples Arce
- Arqueles Vela
- Germán List Arzubide
- Harlem Renaissance - African American poets, novelists, and thinkers, often employing elements of blues and folklore.
- Langston Hughes
- Zora Neale Hurston
- Surrealism - Originally a French movement, influenced by Surrealist painting, that uses surprising images and transitions to play off of formal expectations and depict the unconscious rather than conscious mind.
- Jean Cocteau
- André Breton
- Beat Poets - American movement of the 1950s and 1960s concerned with counterculture and youthful alienation.
- Jack Kerouac
- Allen Ginsberg
- William S. Burroughs
- New York School - Urban, gay or gay-friendly, leftist poets, writers, and painters of the 1960s
- Frank O' Hara
- John Ashbery
- Magical Realism - Literary movement in which magical elements appear in otherwise realistic circumstances. Most often associated with the Latin American literary boom of the 20th century
- Gabriel García Márquez,
- Octavio Paz
- Günter Grass
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