BRITISH LITERATURE (from 19th cent. up to now)

ROMANTICISM (first half of 19th cent.)

Romantic poetry –two generations: Lake school (Wordsworth, Coleridge) Byron, Shelley, Keats Romantic novel –historical novel (Sir Walter Scott) –gothic novel, horror (Mary Shelley)

The Lake Poets The Lyrical Ballads William WordsworthSamuel Taylor Coleridge

The second generation George Gordon Byron: Childe Harold´s Pilgrimage Percy Bysshe Shelley: Ode to the West Wind John Keats: Ode to a Nightingale

Other romantic poets William Blake: The Tyger Robert Burns

Historical novel Sir Walter Scott: Ivanhoe - Wilfred of Ivanhoe - Richard I - Locksley (Robin Hood) - Lady Rowena

Gothic novel Mary Shelley: Frankenstein

Women writers of 19th century Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights

VICTORIAN LITERATURE ( ) Charles Dickens –the greatest representative of critical realism Oscar Wilde –the Aesthetic movement, symbolism, decadence

20th CENTURY LITERARY GENRES Social novel – saga John Galsworthy Crime fiction Sir Arthur Connan Doyle, Agatha Christie Science fiction H. G. Wells Modernism Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence

Social drama George Bernard Shaw Dystopia George Orwell, Aldus Huxley Allegorical novel William Golding Fantasy J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis

Theatre of the Absurd Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard Post-modern novel John Fowles Campus novel Kingsley Amis, David Lodge Spy novel John le Carré, Ken Follett

Thriller Ian Fleming, Frederick Forsyth Science-fiction comedy Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams Children´s literature A. A. Milne, Roald Dahl, J. K. Rowling … and many others