AP English Mid term

Joseph Conrad

Did not learn how to speak English until 21

Wrote about the Sea

A.E. Housman

Had a major impact on 20th century poetry

Wrote A Shropshire Lad

William Butler Yeats

Major 20th century Irish Poet

Mystical in his writing

E.M. Forster

Wrote Passage to India

Complex moral awareness

Katherine Mansfield

The English Chekhov

Wrote only Short stories

Virginia Woolf

Stream of Consciousness

Committed Suicide

James Joyce

Wrote Dublinar

Autobiographical

D.H. Lawrence

Working class ancestry

Dislike British Puritanism

T.S. Eliot

Most Influential 20th century Poet

Considered both American and British

George Orwell

Against Totalitarianism

Had a unhappy life

Frank O’Connor

Irish

Known for his short stories

Sean O’Faolain

Irish

A craftsman of short stories

Dylan Thomas

Welsh Poet

Difficult Imagery

Evelyn Waugh

British Satirist

Catholic convert

Graham Greene

Catholic Convert

Psychological novelist

Old English

465-1066

Beowulf by anonymous

No common language

Renaissance

1515-1660

Shakespeare: Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth, and Julius Caesar

The Age of Exploration

The Enlightenment

1660-1899

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Development of mondern novels

The Romantic Age

1800-1832

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

popularized Gothic Novels

The Victorian Age

1832-1900

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Drastic Social division during this time period

Modern age

1900- present

Lord of the Rings by Tolkien, The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh, Animal Farm by George Orwell and Lord of the Flies by Golding

The Age of Anxiety

Middle English

1066-1515

Canterbury Tales by Chaucer

Magna Carta