Isn't this a bit like calling Joyce or Proust etc. "19th-Century novelists"? The novels, as far as I know, were all written or at least published in the 19th Ce

Isn't this a bit like calling Joyce or Proust etc. "19th-Century novelists"? The novels, as far as I know, were all written or at least published in the 19th Century, likewise most of his poetry.