The document summarizes key aspects of modernism in literature and some modernist authors. It states that modernism involved a break with tradition and a rejection of established views. Modernist works believe the world is created through perception, subscribe to no absolute truths, and focus on alienation, the individual, and the unconscious mind. The document then lists several influential modernist authors such as T.S. Eliot, William Butler Yeats, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, and F. Scott Fitzgerald.