Development of

English Literature
in Modern Period
Present by:
Dian Safitri (211010600429)
Ahmad Rizal Auliairahman (211010600225)
 Table of contents
01 02
BRIEF HISTORY MODERNISM

03 04
LITERARY WORKS Q&A
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Brief History
Historical of Modern Period

Transition from Victorian to Modern

 Historical of Modern
Period
English literature of the modern age started with the
initiation of the 20th century. During World War I and World
War II. The prominent feature of the literature during the
modern age was that it opposed the general attitude towards
life as shown in Victorian literature. People started to regard
victorian age as a hypocritical age, having superficial and
mean ideals. Hypocrisy of victorian period generated a
rebellious attitude in the writers of modern literature.
Transition from Victorian to Modern Period
There were various changes took place in
the field of literature also during the modern
period. The imaginative writing, verses,
structure of the verses of Victorian period
became obsolete. Writers work started
losing the magic they used to have in
previous age. Victorian writers were
becoming rancid and their works were
failing to evoke the spirit of the readers.
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Modernism
 Modernism
Modernism is a quite unique and complex movement
in almost all the creative areas. It began at the end of
the 19th century. During this period literature got the
inception of greatest renaissance of 20th century.
Some other crucial themes of modernism involves
alienated, ill and distorted relation between man and
man, man and his own self, man and society and most
importantly between man and nature.
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Literary Works
Literary Works in Modern Period

Drama

Novels Poetry
 NOVELS AND THE AUTHORS IN
MODERN PERIOD
Malcolm Lowry Anthony Powell William Golding
1909 - 1957 1905 - 2000 1911 - 1993

“Under the Volcano” “Dance to the Music of Time” “Lord of the Flies”
(1947) (1951-1975) (1954)
 DRAMA AND THE PLAYWRIGHT IN
MODERN PERIOD
Hebrik Ibsen Samuel Beckett Harold Pinter
1828 - 1906 1906 - 1989 1930 - 2008

“A Doll’s House” “Waiting for Godot” “The Birthday Party

(1879) (1948-1949) (1959)
 POETRY AND THE AUTHORS IN
MODERN PERIOD
T.S Elliot William Butler Yeats Philip Larkin
1888 - 1965 1856 - 1939 1922 - 1985

“The Love Song of J. “Leda and the Swan” “The Whitsun Wedding”
Alfred Prufrock (1928) (1964)
(1947)
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Q&A
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