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MARCEL PROUST died in 1922, the year in which James Joyce published Ulysses, and T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land.
Harmonium, the first book of poems by Wallace Stevens, appeared in 1923, to be followed by Hart Crane's White Buildings in 1926. The seer of In Search of Lost Time was just fifty-one when he died, having published Swann's Way in 1913. During the war years, publication being impossible, Proust vastly expanded his encyclopedic novel. When peace came, individual volumes appeared, with the last, The Past Recaptured, published posthumously.