Literature3

FROM VICTORIAN TO POST MODERN AGE

19th Century growth of adult

literacy

popularity of the novel

change in the subjects

The greatest writers:

CHARLES DICKENS

THE BRONTËS

AMERICAN LITERATURE

Early 19th Century

Edgar Allan Poe

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Herman Melville

Mark Twain

Walt Whitman

Emily Dickinson

Later Victorian

Anthony Trollope

Wilkie Collins

William Makepeace Thackeray

George Eliot

Thomas Hardy

MODERN LITERATURE

Early 20th Century

W.B.(William Butler) Yeats

T.S.(Thomas Stearns) Eliot > dominated Modern Poetry

* Ezra Pound * William Carlos Williams IMAGISM

Victorian, Edwardian and Georgian poets who got prominence after W.W.1

Thomas Hardy Rudyard Kipling A.E. Housman Edward Thomas Rupert Brooke Siegfried Sassoon Wilfred Owen Isaac Rosenberg Robert Frost

EARLY MODERN WRITERS

Henry James

Joseph Conrad

George Bernard Shaw

H.G. Wells

E.M. Foster

JAMES JOYCE

VIRGINIA WOOLF

Challenge traditional narrative methods of viewpoint and structure.

D.H.Lawrence: explores human relationships

Other novelists:• George

Orwell• Evelyn

Waugh• Graham

Greene• William

Golding (1983 Nobel prize-

winner)

Poetry in the later 20th Century Revival of

romanticism between the two wars

W.H.Auden Louis MacNeice Cecil Day-Lewis Dylan Thomas

American poets

Robert Lowell Philip Larkin R.S. Thomas Thom Gunn Ted Hughes Seamus Heaney

Notable writers outside mainstream movements

Laurence Sterne R.L.Stevenson Oscar Wilde Arnold Benett John Galsworthy F. Scott Fitzgerald Ernest Hemingway John Steinbeck

Amer. J.D. Salinger Arthur Miller