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T. S. Eliot

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	===T. S. Eliot===		===T. S. Eliot===
	* ''[[The Waste Land]]''		* ''[[The Waste Land]]''
			* [[The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock]]

	===Seamus Heany===		===Seamus Heany===

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Added Keats.

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	{{SHORTDESC:Support page for ENGL 2122: British Literature II.}}{{dc\|T}}{{Start\|he literature of the British Isles from the late eighteenth century to the present}} traces the evolution of thought, form, and cultural identity across more than two centuries of social transformation. The Romantic movement emerged as a rebellion against Enlightenment rationalism and industrial modernity, celebrating emotion, imagination, and the sublime in nature through writers such as William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Percy Bysshe Shelley. The Victorian age that followed explored the tensions between faith and science, empire and morality, realism and idealism, in the works of figures like Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, and Charles Dickens.		{{SHORTDESC:Support page for ENGL 2122: British Literature II.}}{{dc\|T}}{{Start\|he literature of the British Isles from the late eighteenth century to the present}} traces the evolution of thought, form, and cultural identity across more than two centuries of social transformation.
			[[File:Portrait of Keats - HH.jpg\|400px\|thumb\|Joseph Severn, ''Portrait of Keats'' (1845)]]
			The Romantic movement emerged as a rebellion against Enlightenment rationalism and industrial modernity, celebrating emotion, imagination, and the sublime in nature through writers such as William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Percy Bysshe Shelley. The Victorian age that followed explored the tensions between faith and science, empire and morality, realism and idealism, in the works of figures like Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, and Charles Dickens.

	By the early twentieth century, the disillusionment of war and rapid modernization gave rise to Modernism, a period of radical experimentation represented by T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and James Joyce. Postwar literature responded to decolonization, gender politics, and class struggle, as postcolonial and feminist voices—from Jean Rhys and Doris Lessing to Salman Rushdie and Angela Carter—redefined the scope of “British” identity.		By the early twentieth century, the disillusionment of war and rapid modernization gave rise to Modernism, a period of radical experimentation represented by T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and James Joyce. Postwar literature responded to decolonization, gender politics, and class struggle, as postcolonial and feminist voices—from Jean Rhys and Doris Lessing to Salman Rushdie and Angela Carter—redefined the scope of “British” identity.

	Contemporary British writing remains diverse and dynamic, addressing globalization, migration, technology, and ecological crisis. Authors such as ~~Zadie Smith~~, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Carol Ann Duffy continue to expand the language of British experience, demonstrating that the literary tradition, from Romanticism to today, is one of perpetual reinvention and critical reflection.		Contemporary British writing remains diverse and dynamic, addressing globalization, migration, technology, and ecological crisis. Authors such as Salman Rushdie, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Carol Ann Duffy continue to expand the language of British experience, demonstrating that the literary tradition, from Romanticism to today, is one of perpetual reinvention and critical reflection.

	== Period Backgrounds ==		== Period Backgrounds ==

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Period Backgrounds: Fixed typo.

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	* [[Romanticism: Revolt of the Spirit]]		* [[Romanticism: Revolt of the Spirit]]
	* [[Victorian British Literature]]		* [[Victorian British Literature]]
	* [[Edwardian British ~~LIterature~~]]		* [[Edwardian British Literature]]
	* [[The Poetry of World War I]]		* [[The Poetry of World War I]]
	* [[Modernism\|Modern British Literature]]		* [[Modernism\|Modern British Literature]]

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Siegfried Sassoon: Fixed link.

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	===Siegfried Sassoon===		===Siegfried Sassoon===
	* [[~~‘They’~~]]		* [[“They”]]
	* [[The Rear Guard]]		* [[The Rear Guard]]
	* [[The General]]		* [[The General]]

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Period Backgrounds

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	* [[Victorian British Literature]]		* [[Victorian British Literature]]
	* [[Edwardian British LIterature]]		* [[Edwardian British LIterature]]
	* [[The Poetry of World War II]]		* [[The Poetry of World War I]]
	* [[Modernism\|Modern British Literature]]		* [[Modernism\|Modern British Literature]]
	* [[Contemporary British Literature]]		* [[Contemporary British Literature]]

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Tweaked format.

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	{{SHORTDESC:Support page for ENGL 2122: British Literature II.}}		{{SHORTDESC:Support page for ENGL 2122: British Literature II.}}{{dc\|T}}{{Start\|he literature of the British Isles from the late eighteenth century to the present}} traces the evolution of thought, form, and cultural identity across more than two centuries of social transformation. The Romantic movement emerged as a rebellion against Enlightenment rationalism and industrial modernity, celebrating emotion, imagination, and the sublime in nature through writers such as William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Percy Bysshe Shelley. The Victorian age that followed explored the tensions between faith and science, empire and morality, realism and idealism, in the works of figures like Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, and Charles Dickens.

	{{dc\|T}}{{Start\|he literature of the British Isles from the late eighteenth century to the present}} traces the evolution of thought, form, and cultural identity across more than two centuries of social transformation. The Romantic movement emerged as a rebellion against Enlightenment rationalism and industrial modernity, celebrating emotion, imagination, and the sublime in nature through writers such as William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Percy Bysshe Shelley. The Victorian age that followed explored the tensions between faith and science, empire and morality, realism and idealism, in the works of figures like Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, and Charles Dickens.

	By the early twentieth century, the disillusionment of war and rapid modernization gave rise to Modernism, a period of radical experimentation represented by T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and James Joyce. Postwar literature responded to decolonization, gender politics, and class struggle, as postcolonial and feminist voices—from Jean Rhys and Doris Lessing to Salman Rushdie and Angela Carter—redefined the scope of “British” identity.		By the early twentieth century, the disillusionment of war and rapid modernization gave rise to Modernism, a period of radical experimentation represented by T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and James Joyce. Postwar literature responded to decolonization, gender politics, and class struggle, as postcolonial and feminist voices—from Jean Rhys and Doris Lessing to Salman Rushdie and Angela Carter—redefined the scope of “British” identity.

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-A course support page for ENGL 2122: British Literature II.
+{{SHORTDESC:Support page for ENGL 2122: British Literature II.}}
 == Period Backgrounds ==
-* [[Modernism]]
+* [[Romanticism: Revolt of the Spirit]]
 == Poetry ==
 ===William Butler Yeats===
 * [[Leda and the Swan]]
 * [[The Second Coming]]

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Created initial page.

New page

A course support page for ENGL 2122: British Literature II.

== Period Backgrounds ==
* [[Modernism]]

== Poetry ==
===William Butler Yeats===
* [[Leda and the Swan]]
* [[The Second Coming]]