This article is continued from the story of english literature part1
e. The Romantic Movement
The writers before the Romantic Movement were not free in the style, form and even in the subject. They had to follow a certain patterns of literature which was already fixed. He might not be out this certainty. They were bound to their time and period. The Romantic Movement was influenced by the contemporary ideals of the French Revolution and Doctrines of Rosseau. They had personal liberty. They were aware of the individual worth of human being and the ennobling influences of the Nature. So they expressed their individual emotion and imagination freely.
They dare to write in Whatever style about whatever subject they liked.
The writers of this age were.
1. William Wordsworth (1770-1850) The Lyrical Ballads
I Wandered Lonely As A Claud
The Reverie of Poor Susan
2. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Rime of The Ancient Marimer
3. Walter Scott The Ladt of The Lake-Ivenho
4. Robert Burns A Red, Red Rose, Auld Lang Sign
5. Byron Fare Thee Wel, The Prison of Chelon
6. Percy Bisshi Shelly The Cloud
7. John Keats Endymion; Hyperion
f. The Victorian Age (the Realistic Period)
The latter part of the 18 century. The passionate admiration of the Nature and Man had produced great poetry and the renewed interest in the past had led to the birth of the historical novel in the Romantic Age.
In the reihn of the Queen Victoria, man invented the steam engine. This caused the rise of The Industrial Revolution in England. Men and women, even children worked in the factories and industries. This situation changed the policy, philosophy and also literature in England. The writer stopped writing emotional thinking of the Romantic period. They wanted to return to Realism. They began to write about the real lives and paid much attention to the discipline in style. This rationalistic trend meant a return to the Classic element was never died, only man did not emphasize too much on it.
The writers of this period:
1. Charles Dickens David Copperfield
Oliver Twist
A Tale of Two Cities
2. William Makepiese Thackeray Vanity fair
Henry Esmond
3. Brente Sistes Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights
4. Alfred Tennyson The Lady of Shellot
5. Robert Browning The Portrait, The last Duchess
6. George Elliot Adam Bede, The Million the Floss
7. A.C. Swinburne A forsaken Garden
8. Jane Austion Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
g. The Twenty Century Period of The Modern English Literature
The writers in the Modern Century liberate themselves from every restriction in connection with subject and style. Since the new methods in prose and poetry have been tried with varying success, though we may say that the most importance authors do not show a complete break with the past.
The writers are among others:
1. Thomas Hardy Far from the Madding Croud
The Return of the Native
2. Joseph Conrad Tyfoon
An Outcast of the Islam
3. George Bernard Shaw Pygmalton
Saint Joan
4. Sommerset Maugham Cakes and Ale
The Painted Vail
5. Herbert George Wells The Wheel of Chance
Kips
6. John Clasworthy The Little Model
The Forstyle Saga
7. Arnold Benet The Regent
The Old Wifu’s Tale
8. John Brynton Priestly The God Companions
Angel Plavement