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1764 |
Horace Walpole: The Castle of Otranto |
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1785 |
Burns: "To a Mouse," "To a Louse," "Holy Willie's Prayer" |
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1787 |
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1788 |
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1789 |
Burns: "Afton Water" Blake: "The Book of Thel" |
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1790 |
Burns: "Tam O'Shanter" Blake: "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" |
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1791 |
Blake: "The Vision of the Daughters of Albion" |
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1792 |
Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women |
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1793 |
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1794 |
Burns: "For a' that" Ann Radcliffe: The Mysteries of Udolpho |
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1795 |
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1796 |
Burns: "A Red, Red Rose" |
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1797 |
Coleridge: "Christabel" started, pub. 1816 "Kubla Khan" First version of "Rime" written W's "The Ruined Cottage" begun, ended 1799; pub. 1949!! Matthew Gregory Lewis, The Monk |
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1798 |
W, Col: Lyrical Ballads 1st Ed. Coleridge: "Frost at Midnight" W: "Lines" (Tintern Abbey) |
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1799 |
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1800 |
W. Col: LB 2nd Ed. with "Preface" Wordsworth, "Michael" |
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1801 |
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1802 |
W, Col: LB, 3rd Ed. with Expanded "Preface" Coleridge: "Dejection: An Ode" Wordsworth: "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1802" Wordsworth: "Ode: Intimations of Immortality" begun; finished '04; pub. '07 |
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1809 |
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1810 |
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1811 |
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1812 |
Byron publishes books 1 and 2 of "Childe Harold" |
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1813 |
Byron: "When We Two Parted" |
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1814 |
Byron: "She Walks in Beauty" |
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1816 |
Jane Austen: Emma Byron, book 3, "Childe Harold" |
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1817 |
Coleridge: Biographia Literaria Shelley: "Ozymandias" (pub. 1818) Shelley: "So We'll Go No More a-Roving" |
| | | | | | | | | ||Emily Bronte |
1818 |
Mary W. Shelley: Frankenstein Byron: Don Juan (finished 1823) Byron: Book 4 of "Childe Harold" |
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1819 |
Shelley: "England in 1918" about Peterloo Massacre Events Keats writes "To Autumn," "Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to a Nightingale," "La Belle Dame Sans Merci," The Eve of St. Agnes" Shelley: "To the West Wind" (pub. 1820) |
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1820 |
Shelley: "To A Sky-Lark" Byron: "When a Man Hath No Freedom to Fight For At Home" Thos. Love Peacock: "The Four Ages of Poetry" |
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1821 |
Shelley writes "A Defence of Poetry" (pub 1840) Shelley, "Adonais" Shelley, "To ____" (Music, when Soft Voices Die") pub. 1824 Shelley: "The Vision of Judgment" Byron: "Stanzas written on the Road" |
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Arnold |
1822 |
Shelley writes "When the Lamp is Shattered" |
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1833 |
Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus |
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1834 |
Browning: "Porphyria's Lover" |
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1839 |
Browning: "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister" |
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Hardy |
1840 |
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1841 |
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1842 |
Browning: "My Last Duchess" Browning: Dramatic Lyrics |
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1843 |
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1844 |
Browning: "How they Brought the Good News. . ." |
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1845 |
Browning: "The Bishop Orders His Tomb. . ." |
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1846 |
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1847 |
Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights Thackeray: Vanity Fair (till '48) Marx/Engels: The Communist Manifesto |
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1848 |
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1849 |
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1850 |
Tennyson: "In Memoriam A.H.H." Wordsworth: The Prelude (posth.) |
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1851 |
John Ruskin: The Stones of Venice (till '53) |
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1852 |
Browning: " 'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came' " |
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1853 |
Browning: "Love Among the Ruins" Matthew Arnold: "The Scholar Gypsy" Matthew Arnold: "Dover Beach" |
| | ||| | |Oscar
Wilde |
1854 |
Browning: "A Grammarian's Funeral" Dickens: Hard Times Coventry Patmore: "The Angel in the House" (till 1862) |
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1855 |
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Shaw |
1856 |
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Conrad |
1857 |
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1858 |
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1859 |
Darwin: Origin of Species John Stuart Mill: On Liberty |
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1860 |
Browning: "Youth and Art" Dickens: Great Expectations George Eliot: The Mill on the Floss |
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1861 |
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1862 |
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1863 |
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1864 |
Browning: Dramatis Personae |
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Yeats |
1865 |
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1866 |
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1867 |
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1868 |
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1869 |
Matthew Arnold: Culture and Anarchy John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women |
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1870 |
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1871 |
Dickens: The Descent of Man |
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1872 |
George Eliot, Middlemarch |
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1873 |
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1874 |
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1875 |
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1876 |
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1877 |
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1878 |
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Forster |
1879 |
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1880 |
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1881 |
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Woolf, James Joyce |
1882 |
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1883 |
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1884 |
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Lawrence |
1885 |
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1886 |
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1887 |
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Arnold F W J L Thomas Stearns
Eliot |
1888 |
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| |Browning W S C Y F W J E |
1889 |
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1890 |
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1891 |
Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D'Urbervilles |
| Tennyson S C Y F W J E |
1892 |
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1893 |
Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession |
| | W S C Y F W J L E Aldous
Huxley |
1894 |
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1895 |
Thomas Hardy: Jude the Obscure |
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1896 |
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1897 |
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1898 |
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1899 |
Irish Literary Theatre founded Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest |
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Wilde Y F W J H |
1900 |
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1901 |
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1902 |
Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness |
| |S C Y F W J L E H George
Orwell |
1903 |
Samuel Butler: The Way of All Flesh (posth.) |
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O |
1904 |
Joseph Conrad: Nostromo Synge: Riders to the Sea |
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1905 |
Shaw, John Bull's Other Island |
| |S C Y F W J L E H
O Samuel
Beckett |
1906 |
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O B |
1907 |
Synge, The Playboy of the Western World Lady Gregory, The Rising of the Moon |
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O B |
1908 |
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O B John Synge dead. |
1909 |
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O B |
1910 |
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O B |
1911 |
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O B |
1912 |
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O B |
1913 |
Yeats: "September 1913" D. H. Lawrence: Sons and Lovers |
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O B |
1914 |
James Joyce: Dubliners |
| |S C Y F W J L E H
O B |
1915 |
T. S. Eliot: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" |
| |S C Y F W J L E H
O B |
1916 |
Yeats: "Easter 1916" James Joyce: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
| |S C Y F W J L E H
O B |
1917 |
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O B |
1918 |
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| |S C Y F W J L E H
O B Doris
Lessing, Iris
Murdoch |
1919 |
T. S. Eliot: "Tradition and the Individual Talent" |
| |S C Y F W J L E H
O B L (still alive) |
1920 |
D. H. Lawrence: Women In Love |
| |S C Y F W J L E H
O B L |
1921 |
T. S. Eliot: Review of The Metaphysical Poets (Ed. Grierson) |
| |S C Y F W J L E H
O B L |
1922 |
T. S. Eliot: "The Waste Land" |
| |S C Y F W J L E H
O B L |
1923 |
Yeats awarded Nobel Prize |
| |S Joseph
Conrad E H
O B L |
1924 |
E. M. Forster: A Passage to India |
| |S Y F W J L E H
O B L |
1925 |
Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway |
| |S Y F W J L E H
O B L |
1926 |
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O B L |
1927 |
T. S. Eliot: "The Journey of the Magi" Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse |
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Hardy E H
O B L |
1928 |
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O B L |
1929 |
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Lawrence Harold
Pinter (still alive) |
1930 |
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O B L |
1931 |
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O B L Lady Gregory dead |
1932 |
Huxley: Brave New World |
| S Y F W J E H
O B L |
1933 |
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1934 |
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O B L |
1935 |
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O B L |
1936 |
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O B L Tom
Stoppard (still alive) |
1937 |
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O B L |
1938 |
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Yeats B L |
1939 |
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O B L |
1940 |
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| S F Virginia
Woolf, James Joyce |
1941 |
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1942 |
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O B L |
1943 |
T. S. Eliot: "Little Gidding" (from Four Quartets) |
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1944 |
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1945 |
George Orwell: Animal Farm |
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1946 |
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1947 |
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1948 |
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O B L |
1949 |
George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four |
| George Bernard
Shaw, George
Orwell |
1950 |
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1951 |
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1952 |
Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot |
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1953 |
T. S. Eliot: "The Three Voices of Poetry" |
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1954 |
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1955 |
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1956 |
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1957 |
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1958 |
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1959 |
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1960 |
Harold Pinter: The Dumb Waiter |
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1961 |
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1962 |
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Huxley |
1963 |
Doris Lessing, "To Room Nineteen" |
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1964 |
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Eliot |
1965 |
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1966 |
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1967 |
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1968 |
Tom Stoppard: The Real Inspector Hound |
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1969 |
Beckett awarded Nobel Prize |
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1970 |
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1983 |
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1987 |
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1988 |
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1989 |
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1990 |
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