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History of British Lit WSIiz
History of British Lit WSIiz
Renaissance literature:
Origins and development of drama (miracle plays, morality plays, interludes)
The rise of English sonnet – (Thomas Wyatt, Henry Howard, Philip Sydney,
Edmund Spencer)
- William Shakespeare - sonnets - themes, images of love
- Hamlet – tragedy, universal appeal
Seventeenth-century literature:
Metaphysical poetry; features and common themes, representatives – John Donne,
George Herbert, Andrew Marvell
- John Milton, Paradise Lost – an epic poem
Cavalier poets - Robert Herrick
Modernism:
Prose: D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf – representatives of modernistic
prose
Poetry: e.g. T. S. Elliot, William Butler Yeats
Twentieth-century literature:
Prose and politics: George Orwell, The Animal Farm, short stories
Poetry: e.g. Wystan Hugh Auden, Dylan Thomas
Literature reflecting reality and age (youth culture, class, ethnicity)
Suggested Bibliography:
Norton’s Anthology of British Literature
The New Pelican Guide to English Literature, ed. B. Ford
R. Barnard, A Short History of English Literature
A. Burgess, English Literature
D. Daiches, A Critical History of English Literature
P. Mroczkowski, Historia literatury angielskiej
P. Rogers, The Oxford Illustrated History of British Literature
A. Zgorzelski, Lectures on British Literature