Romantic to Postmodern British Literary History

By christyeck

  • Poems, Anna Letitia Aikin (Barbauld)

  • Elegiac Sonnets, Charlotte Smith

  • Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, Robert Burns

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    Romantic Period

    Guide Author: William Wordsworth
    Begins with William Blake publishing Songs of Innocence and ends the year before the first passenger train.

  • Songs of Innocence, William Blake

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    French Revolution

  • Pamphlet Wars

  • Execution of Louis XVI, Reign of Terror

  • Lyrical Ballads, William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge

  • Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen

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    Regency Period

  • Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Lord Byron

  • Kubla Khan, Samuel Coleridge

  • Alastor, Percy Shelley

  • Poems, John Keats

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    Victorian Period

    Guide author: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
    Begins with the first passenger train and ends at the turn of the century.

  • First passenger railway opens

  • Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, Alfred, Lord Tennyson

  • Principles of Geology, Charles Lyell

  • Victoria Becomes Queen

  • Dramatic Lyrics, Robert Browning

  • Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte

  • Mary Barton, Elizabeth Gaskell

  • Founding of Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

  • In Memorium, Alfred, Lord Tennyson

  • William Wordsworth dies

  • Alfred, Lord Tennyson becomes poet laureate

  • Great Exhibition (World's Fair)

  • Hard Times, Charles Dickens

  • The Angel in the House, Coventry Patmore

  • Aurora Leigh, Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  • Origin of Species, Charles Darwin

  • Essays in Criticism: First Series, Matthew Arnold

  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carrol

  • Middlemarch, George Eliot

  • The Picture of Dorian Grey, Oscar Wilde

  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle

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    Moderist Period

    Guide Author: James Joyce
    Begins at the turn of the century, ends with the United states entering the Vietnam War.

  • Death of Queen Victoria

  • A Few Don'ts by an Imagiste, Ezra Pound

  • Dubliners, James Joyce

  • Blast

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    World War I

  • Poems, Gerard Manley Hopkins

  • Irish Free State Formed

  • Ulysses, James Joyce

  • The Wasteland, T.S. Eliot

  • A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf

  • A Far Cry from Africa, Derek Walcott

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    World War II

  • Deaths and Entrances, Dylan Thomas

  • Indian and Pakistani Independence

  • Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell

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    Vietnam War

  • The Whitsun Weddings, Phillip Larkin

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    Postmodern Period

    Guide Author: J.K. Rowling
    Begins with U.S. troops entering the Vietnam War and has not ended yet.

  • North, Seamus Heaney

  • Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie

  • I is a Long-Memoried Woman

  • Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

  • Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

  • Atonement, Ian McEwan

  • September 11th Attacks

  • Invasion of Iraq

  • Twilight, Stephanie Meyer