 Another immigrant, Polish-born modernist novelist Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) published his first important work, "Heart of Darkness", in 1899 and "Lord Jim" in 1900.The American exponent of Naturalism Theodore Dreiser's (1871–1945) "Sister Carrie" was also published in 1900.However, the Victorian Gerard Manley Hopkins's (1844–89) highly original poetry was not published until 1918, long after his death, while the career of another major modernist poet, Irishman W. B. Yeats (1865–1939), began late in the Victorian era.