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Agusto cesar
The Augustan Age begins in English literature, claiming comparison with the equivalent flowering under Augustus Caesar -
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new style of journalism
The Tatler launches a new style of journalism in Britain's coffee houses, followed two years later by the Spectator -
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English poetry
Alexander Pope's Rape of the Lock introduces a delicate vein of mock-heroic in English poetry -
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the longest novel
Samuel Richardson's Clarissa begins the correspondence that grows into the longest novel in the English language -
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magisterial Dictionary
Samuel Johnson publishes his magisterial Dictionary of the English Language -
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Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
English historian Edward Gibbon, sitting among ruins in Rome, conceives the idea of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire -
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Publication of The decadence and fall of the Roman Empire.
English historian Edward Gibbon publishes the first volume of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire -
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success in the theater
Richard Brinsley Sheridan's second play, The School for Scandal, is an immediate success in London's Drury Lane theatre -
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feminist work
English author Mary Wollstonecraft publishes a passionately feminist work, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman -
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Brochure of the Need for Atheism
Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from Oxford university for circulating a pamphlet with the title The Necessity of Atheism -
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Publication of two Jane Austen novels.
Two of Jane Austen's novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, are published in the year after her death -
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autobibliography publication
English author Thomas De Quincey publishes his autobiographical Confessions of an English Opium-Eater -
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touching ballads collection
English author Thomas Babington Macaulay publishes a collection of stirring ballads, Lays of Ancient Rome -
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the conservatism
In his novel Coningsby Benjamin Disraeli develops the theme of Conservatism uniting 'two nations', the rich and the poor -
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The evolution of the spices.
Charles Darwin puts forward the theory of evolution in On the Origin of Species, the result of 20 years' research -
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melodramas
Mrs Henry Wood published her first novel, East Lynne, which becomes the basis of the most popular of all Victorian melodramas -
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'sprung rhythm'
English poet Gerard Manley Hopkins develops a new verse form that he calls 'sprung rhythm' -
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the art
The Aesthetic Movement and 'art for art's sake', attitudes personified above all by Whistler and Wilde, are widely mocked and satirized in Britain -
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translation publication
Explorer and orientalist Richard Burton begins publication of his multi-volume translation from the Arabic of The Arabian Nights -
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ritual and religious custom
Scottish anthropologist James Frazer publishes The Golden Bough, a massive compilation of contemporary knowledge about ritual and religious custom -
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Peter pan
J.M Barrie's play for children Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up has its premiere in London -
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Mathematical logic
Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell complete a work of mathematical logic, Principia Mathematica -
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poem book
Robert Graves published his first book of poems, Over the Brazier -
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the economic consequences
In The Economic Consequences of the Peace Maynard Keynes published a strong attack on the reparations demanded from Germany -
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novel Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf published her novel Mrs Dalloway, in which the action is limited to a single day -
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narrative scenario
Virginia Woolf uses a Hebridean holiday as the setting for her narrative in To The Lighthouse -
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comic novel
Evelyn Waugh succeeds with a comic first novel, Decline and Fall -
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adventures for children
Swallows and Amazons is the first of Arthur Ransome's adventure stories for children -
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epic narrative
US poet Archibald MacLeish publishes a narrative epic, Conquistador, about the conquest of Mexico -
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economic theory
John Maynard Keynes defines his economics in The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money -
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drama of verses
Christopher Fry's verse drama The Lady's Not For Burning engages in high-spirited poetic word play -
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narnia, the lion and the wardrobe
C.S. Lewis gives the first glimpse of Narnia in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe -
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theater
Irish dramatist Brendan Behan's play The Hostage is produced in Dublin -
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feminist novel
British author Doris Lessing publishes an influential feminist novel, The Golden Notebook -
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playwright
English dramatist Caryl Churchill's first play, Owners, is produced in London -
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booker prize
English author Ruth Prawer Jhabwala wins the Booker Prize with her novel Heat and Dust -
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economic consequences
British economist Nicholas Kaldor attacks monetarism in The Economic Consequences of Mrs Thatcher -
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multifacetic novel
English author Julian Barnes publishes a multi-faceted literary novel, Flaubert's Parrot -
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satirical poems
English poets John Fuller and James Fenton collaborate in a volume of satirical poems, Partingtime Hall -
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AIDS issue
English poet Thom Gunn's The Man with Night Sweats deals openly with AIDS -
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Poems for letters
The poems forming Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters describe his relationship with Sylvia Plath