THE ROMANTIC PERIOD:

THE HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL BACKGROUND

Pre Romantic Poetry
Thomas Gray: Elegy in a country churchyard
William Blake: Infant Joy, Infant Sorrow, London,The Lamb, The Tyger

The first generation:
William Wordsworth: “The preface to Lyrical Ballads”, Daffodils, The Solitary Reaper, Tintern Abbey,

My Heart Leaps Up.

S.T. Coleridge: “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ”, A Sadder and a Wiser Man.

The second generation:
Lord Byron: “Don Juan”
P. B. Shelley:” Ode to the West Wind”, To a Skylark
John Keats: “Ode on a Grecian Urn”, La Belle Dame sans Merci.

The Romantic Novel:
Mary Shelley, the gothic Novel: “Frankenstein”
Jane Austen: the novel of manner: “Pride and prejudice”

Walter Scott: The father of the historical novel: “Ivanhoe”

THE VICTORIAN AGE: THE HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL BACKGROUND

Victorian Novel

Towards a mild realism: Charles Dicken “Oliver Twist”,  “Hard Times

The divided self: Robert Luis Stevenson: “The strange case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde”

Novels of philosophical pessimism: Thomas Hardy “Tess of D’Ubervilles”

Art for art’ s sake: Oscar Wilde “The picture of Dorian Gray”, “The importance of being Earnest”

Henry James: “Daisy Miller”

Joseph Conrad  “Heart of darkness”

Victorian Poetry

Emily Dickinson “The saddest noise”

Victorian Drama

G. Bernard Shaw “Pygmalion”

THE 20TH CENTURY: THE HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL BACKGROUND

The literary production: Modernism

Contemporary poetry

Ezra Pound, Lustra “the garret”

W.B. Y eats “Easter 1916“

T. Stearns Eliot: “The Waste Land”

Contemporary novel

D.H. Lawrence “sons and lovers”, from Lady Chatterley’s Lover “Tevershall”

J. Joyce : “Ulysses”, “Dubliners”

Virginia Woolf.: “Mrs Dalloway”, ”To the Lighthouse”

E.M. Foster “A passage to India”

F.S. Fitzgerald “The great Gasby”

E. Hemingway “Fiesta”

G. Orwell: “Animal Farm”,“1984”

Jack Kerouac “on the road”

Contemporary Drama

S. Beckett “Waiting for Godot”

John Osbor “Look back in anger”