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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. | |||
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. | |||
== Period Backgrounds == | == Period Backgrounds == | ||
* [[Modernism]] | * [[Romanticism: Revolt of the Spirit]] | ||
* [[Victorian British Literature]] | |||
* [[Edwardian British LIterature]] | |||
* [[The Poetry of World War II]] | |||
* [[Modernism|Modern British Literature]] | |||
* [[Contemporary British Literature]] | |||
== Poetry == | == Poetry == | ||
===Matthew Arnold=== | |||
* [[Dover Beach]] | |||
===W. H. Auden=== | |||
* [[Musée des Beaux Arts]] | |||
===William Blake=== | |||
====From ''Songs of Innocence''==== | |||
* [[Introduction (SI)|Introduction]] | |||
* [[The Lamb]] | |||
* [[The Chimney Sweeper (SI)|The Chimney Sweeper]] | |||
====From ''Songs of Experience''==== | |||
* [[Introduction (SE)|Introduction]] | |||
* [[Earth’s Answer]] | |||
* [[The Tyger]] | |||
* [[The Chimney Sweeper (SE)|The Chimney Sweeper]] | |||
* [[The Sick Rose]] | |||
===Rupert Brooke=== | |||
* [[The Soldier]] | |||
===Robert Browning=== | |||
* [[My Last Duchess]] | |||
* [[Porphyria’s Lover]] | |||
===Lord Byron=== | |||
* [[She Walks in Beauty]] | |||
* [[Darkness]] | |||
* [[So We’ll No More Go A-Roving]] | |||
===Samuel Taylor Coleridge=== | |||
* [[Kubla Khan]] | |||
===T. S. Eliot=== | |||
* ''[[The Waste Land]]'' | |||
===Seamus Heany=== | |||
* [[Digging]] | |||
* [[Clearances]] | |||
* [[Punishment]] | |||
* [[The Skunk]] | |||
===Gerard Manley Hopkins=== | |||
* [[God’s Grandeur]] | |||
* [[The Windhover]] | |||
===John Keats=== | |||
* [[On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer]] | |||
* [[Ode on a Grecian Urn]] | |||
===Philip Larkin=== | |||
* [[The Mower]] | |||
* [[Talking in Bed]] | |||
===Wilfred Owen=== | |||
* [[Anthem for Doomed Youth]] | |||
* [[Dulce Et Decorum Est]] | |||
* [[Apologia Pro Poemate Meo]] | |||
===Christina Rossetti=== | |||
* [[Goblin Market]] | |||
===Siegfried Sassoon=== | |||
* [[‘They’]] | |||
* [[The Rear Guard]] | |||
* [[The General]] | |||
* [[Glory of Women]] | |||
===Percy Bysshe Shelley=== | |||
* [[Ozymandias]] | |||
===Alfred, Lord Tennyson=== | |||
* [[The Lady of Shalott]] | |||
* [[The Lotos-Eaters]] | |||
* [[Ulysses]] | |||
===Dylan Thomas=== | |||
* [[Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night]] | |||
===William Wordsworth=== | |||
* [[Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey]] | |||
* [[The World Is too Much with Us]] | |||
===William Butler Yeats=== | ===William Butler Yeats=== | ||
* [[Leda and the Swan]] | * [[Leda and the Swan]] | ||
* [[Sailing to Byzantium]] | |||
* [[The Second Coming]] | * [[The Second Coming]] | ||
== Prose == | |||
===E. M. Forster=== | |||
* [[Tolerance]] | |||
===James Joyce=== | |||
* [[Araby]] | |||
== Study Guides == | |||
* ''[[The Importance of Being Ernest Study Guide|The Importance of Being Ernest]]'' | |||
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[[Category:Index]] | |||