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georgian poetry
E.D. Marsh
Alfred Edward Housman
Walter de la Mare
John Masefield
Edward Thomas
James Elroy Flecker
Edmund Blunden
Pro Georgian War Poetry WWI
Rupert Brooke “The Soldier” 1914
Anti Georgian War Poetry WWI
Wilfred Owen “Dulce et Decorum Est” 1918
Isaac Rosenberg
Siegfried Sassoon
Modernist / Avant-garde Poetry
Thomas Ernest Hulme
Ezra Pund
T.S. Eliot
William Butler Yeats
W.H. Auden
Romantic and Surrealist Currents Georgian
Sir Herbert Read
David Gascoyne
Dylan Thomas
Dame Edith Sitwell
New Apocalypse late 30s/40s
Hendry, Treece, Frazer
–> surrealist, symbolist and romantic impulses
Modern Drama of Ideas / Social Criticism
John Galsworthy
Modern Drama of the 1930s
John Boynton Priestley
Modern Irish Drama (Modernist)
John Millington Synge
Sean O’Casey
Modern Poetic Drama
Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Frye, Ridler
Modern Prose - Influence from Abroad
Kipling - The Jungle Book
Conrad - Lord Jim
Modern Realism and the Condition of England Novel
Bennett
Wells
Forster
Lawrence
High Modernism
James Joyce: Ulysses 1922, Finnegans Wake 1939
Virginia Woolf: Orlando 1928, Mrs. Dalloway 1925
T.S. Eliot “The Waste Land” 1922
Modern Political Novel preceding WWII
George Orwell: Animal Farm 1945
Isherwood: Goodbye to Berlin 1939
Modernism initiated by
Shaw, Wilde, James, Conrad
Modernist Prose Stream of Consciousness
Henry James, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf
Modernist Prose Great Age of the Short Story
Wells, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Mansfield, Woolf
postmodern feminist poetry
Rich, Lorde, Carol Ann Duffy
Postmodern black british poetry
soyinka, nagra, agbabi
1940s poetry
Dylan Thomas “Do not go gentle into that good night”
1950s poetry
Philip Larkin “Church going” 1955
ababcdece
abab–> order and regularity of organised religion
cde–> non-rhyming verse hinting at departure from that old order , creeping doubt and scepticism
ce–> modified return to rhyme oder, signalling the continuity of individuals’ quest for meaning.making systems
Stevie Smith “Not Waving but Drowning” 1957
abcb ballad stanza; metre partly irregular
1960s poetry
influential manifesto: Alfred Alvarez “The new poetry. Or beyond the gentility principle” 1962
representatives: Hill, Hughes, Plath
Seamus Heaney
Cobbing, Horovitz, Logue, O’Sullivan
Beat Poets (1950-)
Ginsberg (“Howl” 1956), Corso, Waldman
postmodern drama
Samuel Beckett: “Waiting for Godot”
Harold Printer
Edward Bond “Saved”
Sarah Kane
Caryl Churchill “Cloud 9”
restoration Period
John Dryden (1631-1700)
Poetry: Annus Mirabilis
Drama: All for love
Verse satire: the medal
Translations of Ovid, Horace, etc
Earl of Rochester –> Poetry : Signior Dildo
Restoration Comedies
Wycherley: The Country Wife (Mr Horner’s role play)
Congreve: The way of the world (“dwindle into a wife”)
Etherege: The Man of Mode
Restoration Drama: Heroic Tragedy
John Dryden, All for Love 1677
–> rewriting of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra
–> neoclassical correction: unities of time, place, action & decorum
Restoration prose
Samuel Pepys , Diary 1660-1669
Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress (Spiritual autobiography)
Augustan Kings and Queens
Anne 1702-1714
George I 1714-1727
George II 1727-60
George III 1760-1820
War os Spanish succession: 1702-14
American war of independence: 1775-83
Augustan Poetry
Alexander Pope: Pastorals 1709
- satires+ verse epistles: “The rape of the lock” 1712/14
- philosophical essays (in verse): essay on man 1733/34
- translations of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey
Anne Finch
Jonathan Swift: Prose satire: A modest proposal => medium of debate and the politically informed public sphere
John Gay
Augustan sentimental comedy
Steele: The conscious lovers 1722
Augustan domestic tragedy
Lillo: The London Merchant 1731
Augustan satirical mock opera
Gay: The Beggar’s Opera 1726
–> satire on the hypocrisy and greed of the new middle class, characters are all criminals and syndicate is strikingly similar to the capitalist business of the middle class