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The Romantic, Victorian and Modern Periods of Literature

  • Beginning of the Industrial Revolution

    Beginning of the Industrial Revolution
    Marks the beginning of the Romantic Period
  • Period: to

    The Romantic Period

    Each date is set to January 1 of the proper year regardless of actual month and day.
  • William Blake's SONGS OF INNOCENCE

    William Blake's SONGS OF INNOCENCE
  • French Revolution

    French Revolution
  • William Blake's SONGS OF EXPERIENCE

    William Blake's SONGS OF EXPERIENCE
  • Woodsworth and Coleridge's LYRICAL BALLADS

    Woodsworth and Coleridge's LYRICAL BALLADS
  • Woodsworth's I WANDERED LONELY AS A CLOUD

    Woodsworth's I WANDERED LONELY AS A CLOUD
  • Mary Shelly's FRANKENSTEIN

    Mary Shelly's FRANKENSTEIN
    Prime example of the Gothic Novel
  • John Keats' ODE TO A GRECIAN URN

    John Keats' ODE TO A GRECIAN URN
    Furthers ideas of the beautiful verses the sublime
  • George Byron's DON JUAN

    George Byron's DON JUAN
    Byron is one of hte most known authors of the Romantic Era. He is described much in the same way that his characters are; creating the Byronic Hero
  • Victoria become Queen of England

    Victoria become Queen of England
    This marks the beginning of the Victorian Period
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    Victorian Period

  • Tennyson's THE LADY OF SHALOTT

    Tennyson's THE LADY OF SHALOTT
    Art is the tension between Absence and Presence
  • Charles Dicken's "A CHRISTMAS CAROL"

    Charles Dicken's "A CHRISTMAS CAROL"
  • Edgar Allen Poe's THE RAVEN

    Edgar Allen Poe's THE RAVEN
  • Emily Bronte's WUTHERING HEIGHTS

    Emily Bronte's WUTHERING HEIGHTS
  • American Civil War

    American Civil War
  • Christina Rossetti's "GOBLIN MARKET"

    Christina Rossetti's "GOBLIN MARKET"
    Thinking of God in a sensory way
  • Robert Louis Stevenson's TREASURE |ISLAND

    Robert Louis Stevenson's TREASURE |ISLAND
  • Oscar Wilde's THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST

    Oscar Wilde's THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
  • Turn of the Century

    Turn of the Century
    Marks the beginning of the Modernist period
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    Modern Period

  • Joseph Conrad's HEART OF DARKNESS

    Joseph Conrad's HEART OF DARKNESS
  • World War I

    World War I
  • T.S. Eliot's "THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK"

    T.S. Eliot's "THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK"
    modern anithero
  • E.M. Forster's A PASSAGE TO INDIA

    E.M. Forster's A PASSAGE TO INDIA
    Spacially arranged. Antiheros lack heroism
  • World War II

    World War II
  • George Orwell's ANIMAL FARM

    George Orwell's ANIMAL FARM
  • Beginning of Post-Modernism

    Beginning of Post-Modernism