British Literature Authors And Works

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Louis MacNeice

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POST MODERN
NEW SIGNATURE POET
"bagpipe music"
"good dream"

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The Venerable Bede

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"An Ecclesiastical History of the English People"
Includes: "Caedmon's Hymn"

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Geoffrey Chaucer

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The Canterbury Tales

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Margery Kempe

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"The Book of Margery Kempe"

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William Langland

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"Piers Plowman"
allegorical, narrative poem

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The Pearl Poet

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~Late Medieval~
"Sir Gawain & the green knight"
"Pearl"
"Patience"
"Purity"

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Miracle, Mystery, & morality plays

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~Late Medieval~
"Everyman"
"The second Shepard's Play"

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Thomas Malory

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~Late Medieval~
"Le Morte d' Arthur

* a collection of stories on King Author

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Sir Philip Sidney

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~Renaissance~

"Astrophil & Stella"
"An Apology for Poetry"

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Christopher Marlowe

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~Renaissance~
poet, dramatist
"Dr. Faustus" "Tamberlaine"
"The Jew of Maltra",
"The Passionate Shepard To His Love"

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Thomas More

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~Renaissance~
Utopia

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Edmund Spenser

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~Renaissance~
"The Faerie Queen"
"Amoretti"
"Epithalamion"

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William Shakespeare

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~Renaissance~
"Sonnets", "Hamlet", "King Lear', "Othello", "Macbeth", "Richard 2", "Richard 3", "Love's Labor Lost", "Much ado about nothing", "The tempest", "The taming of the shrew", and "Romeo and Juliet"

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John Donne

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~Renaissance~
"The Canonization"
"A validation Forbidding Mourning"

Good Friday, 1613, Riding Westward"
"Holy Sonnets"
"Death Be not Proud"

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Ben Johnson

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~Renaissance~
"To the memory of my beloved master William Shakespeare"
"To Celia"
"Volpone"
"Every Man in His Hummors"

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Sir Walter Raleigh

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~Renaissance~

"The Lie"
"The Nymph's Reply to the Shepard"
"The Ocean to Cynthia"

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Sir Francis Bacon

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~Renaissance~

"Essays" (106 essays on various topics)
"The Advancement of Learning"

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Robert Herrick

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~Renaissance~
*Cavalier Poet*

"Prayer To Ben Johnson"
"Upon Julia's Clothes"
"To the Virgins, To Make much of time"

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Andrew Marvell

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~Renaissance~
* Cavalier poet*
"To His Coy Mistress"
"Upon Appleton House"
"The Garden"

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John Milton

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~Renaissance~

"Paradise Lost"
Samson Agonistes"
L'Allegro"
"Il Penseroso"
"Lycidas"- elegy
"When I Consider How My Light Is Spent"
"Aeropagitica" - pamphlet
"Of Education"- pamphlet

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John Bunyan

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~ Augustan Age~
"The Pilgrim's Progress"

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Joseph Addison & Richard Steele

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~ Augustan Age~
together they wrote the papers"
"the Spectator" & "The Tattler"

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Daniel DeFoe

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~ Augustan Age~
NOVELIST
"Robinson Crusoe"
"Moll Flanders"
"The Journal of the Plague Year"

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Samuel Richardson

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~ Augustan Age~
NOVELIST
"Pamela"

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Henry Fielding

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~ Augustan Age~
NOVELIST
"Tom Jones"
"Tristian Shandy"
"Shamela"

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Tobias Smollett

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~ Augustan Age~
NOVELIST
"The Adventures of Roderick Random"
"The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle"

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John Dryden

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~ Augustan Age~
POET, SATIRIST. ESTABLISHED THE HEROIC COUPLET. INTRODUCED ALEXANDRIAN.

"A Song for St. Cecilia's Day"
"Absalom & Achitophel"
"MacFlecknoe"
"Essay of Dramatic Poesy"
"All For Love"

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Fanny Burney

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~ Augustan Age~

"Evelina"

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Alexander Pope

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~ Augustan Age~
POET, SATIRIST, PROSE SATIRIST

"Rape of the Lock"
Essay on Man
"The Dunciad"

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Jonathan Swift

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~ Augustan Age~
NOVELIST, ESSAYIST, PROSE SATIRIST.

"A Modest Proposal"
"Gulliver's Travels"
"Tale of The Tub"
"Letters To Stella"

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Aphra Behn

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~ Augustan Age~
"Oroonoko"

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Samuel Johnson

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~ Augustan Age~
LEXICOGRAPHER. WRITER.
"Rasselas"
"The Rambler"
"The Idler"
"A Dictionary Of the English Language"

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James Boswell

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~ Augustan Age~
BIOGRAPHER
"The Life Of Samuel Johnson"

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Robert Burns

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~ Augustan Age~ (Pre-Rom.)
POET
"To A mouse"
"Holy Wille's Prayer"
"Tam O'Shanter"
"My Luve is Like a Red, Red Rose"

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Thomas Gray

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~ Augustan Age~ (Pre-Rom.)
"Elegy Written i a country Churchyard"
"Eton College Ode"

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William Blake

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~Romantic Period~ 1790-1840
POET
"Songs Of Innocence"
"Songs of Experience"
"The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell"

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William Wordsworth

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~Romantic Period~ 1790-1840
POET
"Lyrical Ballads"
"Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abby"
"The World is too much with us'
"A slumber did my spirit sea"

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Samuel taylor Coleridge

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~Romantic Period~ 1790-1840
POET
"Lyrical Ballads"
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
Kubla Khan"
"This Lime Tree Bower My Prison"
"Biographia Literaria"

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

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~Romantic Period~ 1790-1840
POET
"Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"
"Don Juan"
"Manfred"
"A Dramatic Poem"

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Percy Bysshe Shelly

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~Romantic Period~ 1790-1840

"To A SkyLark"
"Ozymandias"
"Adonai" ( elegy for keats)
"Prometheus unbound"

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Mary Shelley

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~Romantic Period~ 1790-1840

"Frankenstein"

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John Keats

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~Romantic Period~ 1790-1840
POET
"Bright star"
"The eve of St. Agnes, Endymion"
"La Belle Dame Sans Merci"
Ode to a Grecian Urn"
"Ode to a nightingale"
"Ode to Autumn"

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Jane Austen

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~Romantic Period~ 1790-1840
"Pride and Prejudice"
Emma"
"Sense and Sensibility"
Mansfield Park"
"Northanger Abby"

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Sir Walter Scott

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~Romantic Period~ 1790-1840
NOVELIST
"Ivanhoe"
"Kenilworth"
"Rob Roy"

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William Hazlitt

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~Romantic Period~ 1790-1840
essay:
The Characters of Shakespeare's Plays

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Thomas Dequincey

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~Romantic Period~ 1790-1840
ESSAYS:
"On knocking at the gate in Macbeth
"Confessions of an English Opium eater"

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Thomas Babington Macaulary

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~Victorian Period~ 1840 - 1900
ESSAYIST, HISTORIAN

"A History of England From The Accession of James 2"

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William Makepeace Thackeray

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~Victorian Period~ 1840 - 1900
NOVELIST, SATIRIST
"Vanity Fair'
"THe Luck of Barry Lydon"
"Catherine"

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Charlotte Bronte

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~Victorian Period~ 1840 - 1900
"Jane Eyre"

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Emily Bronte

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~Victorian Period~ 1840 - 1900
"Wutheringg Heights"
"Poems"

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Anne Bronte

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~Victorian Period~ 1840 - 1900
"Agnes Gray"
"The Tennant of Wildfell Hall"

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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~Victorian Period~ 1840 - 1900
POET
"In Memoriam, A.H.H."
"Ulysses"
"Flower in the Crannied Wall"
"Tears, Idle Tears"
"Crossing the Bar"
"Charge of the light brigade"

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Robert Browning

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~Victorian Period~ 1840 - 1900
POET
"My Last Duchess"
'Pippa Passes"
"Caliban Upon Setebos"
"Fra Lippo Lippi"
"Rabbi Ben Ezra"

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Elizebeth Barrett Browning

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~Victorian Period~ 1840 - 1900
POET
"Sonnets From the Portuguese"
"How well do I love thee?"

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Mather arnold

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~Victorian Period~ 1840 - 1900
POET
"Dover Beach"

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Cristina Rosetti

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~Victorian Period~ 1840 - 1900
POET
"Goblin Market & other poems"

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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~Victorian Period~ 1840 - 1900
POET, ARTIST
"The Germ"
"Ballads & Sonnets"
"The Blessed Damozel"

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Charles Dickens

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~Victorian Period~ 1840 - 1900
NOVELIST
"Oliver Twist"
"The Pickwick Papers"
"Tale of Two Cities"
David Copperfield"

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John Stuart

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~Victorian Period~ 1840 - 1900
PROSE
"Utilitarianism"

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Thomas Carlyle

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~Victorian Period~ 1840 - 1900
PROSE WRITER
"Sartor Resartus"

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John Henry Newman

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~Victorian Period~ 1840 - 1900
PROSE WRITER, CARDINAL
"Apologia Pro Vita Sua" (a autobiography and defense of Catholicism)

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Thomas Hardy

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~Victorian Period~ 1840 - 1900
NOVELIST,POET
"Return of the Native"
"Tess of the De'Urbervilles"
"Far from the Maddening Crowd"
"Jude the Obscure"
"The Darkling Thrush"
"The Convergence of the Twain"(titanic poem)
"The Dynasts" (epic/ napoleon wars)

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Rudyard Kipling

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~Victorian Period~ 1840 - 1900

"The Jungle Book"
"The Ballad of East and West"
"Kim"
"Barrack-Room Ballads"
"Departmental Ditties"
"Riki Tiki tavi"

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Gerard Manley Hopkins

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~Victorian Period~ 1840 - 1900
POET

"Pied Beauty"
"God's Grandeur"
"The Windhovver"

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Charles Algernon Swineburne

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~Victorian Period~ 1840 - 1900
POET
"Tristram of Lyonsesse" (epic)
"Songs Before Sunrise"
"Poems & Ballads"

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Oscar Wilde

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~Victorian Period~ 1840 - 1900
POET,DRAMATIST, NOVELIST

"Importance of being earnest"
"Lady Windmere's Fan"
"Salome"
"The Ballad of Reading Gaol"
"A Picture of Dorian Gray"

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Wilfred Owen

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~Modern Period, 1900-1945~ WW2 Poets
"Dulce et Decorum Est"

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Rupert Brooke

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~Modern Period, 1900-1945~ WW2 Poets.
"A soldier"

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Siegfried Sasson

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~Modern Period, 1900-1945~ WW2 Poets.
"Everyone Sang"

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A.E Houseman

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~Modern Period, 1900-1945~ WW2 Poets.
"A Shropshire lad"
"To An Athlete dying young"
"Loveliest of Trees"

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William Butler Yeats

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~Modern period~ 1900-1945
POET, IRISH
"Sailing To Bryzantium"
"Adam's Curse"
'The Wild Swans at Coole"
"Down By the Shalley Gardens"

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James Joyce

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~Modern period~ 1900-1945
NOVELSIT, SHORT STORY, Irish

"A portrait of the artist as a young man"
"Ulysses"
"Finnegran's wake"

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Virginia Woolf

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~Modern period~ 1900-1945
NOVELIST,CRITIC, FEMINIST,Essayist
"Mrs. Dalloway"
"To the light house"
"a room of one's own" (essay on a woman's "space")

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Katherine Mansfield

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~Modern period~ 1900-1945
SHORT STORY
"Miss Bril"
"The Garden Party"

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Joseph Conrad

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~Modern period~ 1900-1945
NOVELIST, SHORT STORY
"The lagoon"
"Heart of Darkness"
"Nastromo"

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T.S. Eliot

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~Modern period~ 1900-1945
POET, CRITIC, DRAMATIST
"The Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
"The hollow men"
"Ash Wednesday"
"The wasteland'
"The four quartets"
"The murder in the cathedral"
"The cocktail party"

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George Bernard Shaw

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~Modern period~ 1900-1945
CRITC, DRAMATIST
"Pygmalion"
"Man & superman"
"Mrs. Warren's Profession"

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Sean o'Cassy

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~Modern period~ 1900-1945
IRISH DRAMATIST
"The plough & the Stars"

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John Millington Synge

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~Modern period~ 1900-1945
IRISH DRAMATIST
"The playboy of the western world"

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Dylan Thomas

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~Modern period~ 1900-1945
POET, WELSH
"Eighteen poems"
"Twenty-five poems"
In country sleep"
"Do not go gentle into that good night"
"And death shall have no dominion"
"In my sullen craft or art"
"under Milk wood" (radio play)

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William Golding

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~Modern Period~ 1900-1945
NOVELIST
"The lord of the flies"
"The inheritors"

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George Orwell

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~Modern Period~ 1900-1945
NOVELIST

"The Animal Farm"
"1984"
"Shooting An Elephant"

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Edward Morgan Forster

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~Modern Period~ 1900-1945
NOVELIST
"A Room With A VIEW"
"A Passage to India"

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W.H. Auden

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~Post-Modern Period, 1945...~
-NEW SIGNATURE POET-
"To the unknown Citizen"
"Musee des beaux arts"

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philip larkin

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~Post-Modern Period, 1945...~
movement POET
"High windows"
"Faith healing"
"Ambulances"

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Edmund Blunden

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~Post-Modern Period, 1945...~
TRADITIONAL POET
"After bombing"
"A hong Kong house"

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Edwin Muir

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~Post-Modern Period, 1945...~
TRADITIONAL POET
"Collected poems"

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John Betjeman

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~Post-Modern Period, 1945...~
TRADITIONAL POETS, poet lureate
"Collected poems"
"Summoned by bells"
"A nip in the air"

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Christopher Isherwood

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~Post-Modern Period, 1945...~
NOVELIST
collaborated with AUDEN

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Stevie Smith

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~Post-Modern Period, 1945...~
NOVELIST,POET
"Not Waving But Drowning"
"The Galloping Cat"
"Novel On Yellow Paper"
"Over the Frontier"
"The holiday"

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Graham Greene

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~Post-Modern Period, 1945...~
NOVELIST
"Brighton Rock"
"The Power & the Glory"
The heart of the matter"

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Samuel Beckett

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~Post-Modern Period, 1945...~
DRAMATIST, NOVELIST
"Waiting for Godot"(p)
"Endgame"(p)
"Not I""(p)
"Murphy" (n)
"Watt" (n)

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Harold Pinter

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~Post-Modern Period, 1945...~
DRAMATIST
"the birthday party"
"The betrayal"
"The dumb waiter"
"The homecoming"

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Tom Stoppard

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~Post-Modern Period, 1945...~
DRAMATIST
"Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are dead"

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Robert Graves

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~Post-Modern Period, 1945...~
NOVELIST, TRANSLATOR
"Goodbye to all that i"
"Claudius"
"The white godess"

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Seamus Heaney

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~Post-Modern Period, 1945...~
POET, TRANSLATOR, IRISH
"Death of a naturalist"
"Churning Day"
"Grauballe Man"

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Ted Hughes

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~Post-Modern Period, 1945...~
"Crow"
" A Disaster"
"hawk roosting"

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Sean O' Faolain
Frank O' Connor

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~Post-Modern Period, 1945...~
short story writers

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Doris Lessing

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~Post-Modern Period, 1945...~
NOVELIST
"The grass is singing"
"The golden notebook"

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Stephen Spender

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~Post-Modern Period, 1945...~

a new signature poet