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Thomas Hardy
He celebrate nature in many of his works. One of the best-known of these is ´The Darkling Thrush´. Many of Hardy´s poems shoe the irony which he used also in his short stories. He is now considered one of the most important poets of the twentieth century. -
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The Twentieth Century
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The death of Queen Victoria
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William James
James moved on to write three of his masterpieces in England. All three are international themes, contrasting the American culture and character with European. the language and the plot are very complex and very subtle. The first of his works was ´The Wings of the Dove´ -
´Heart of Darkness´
One of Joseph Conrad´s most famous works, which goes deep into Africa to explore the mysteries of human behaviour. -
´The Ambassadors´
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Diplomatic mission in France
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´The Golden Bowl´
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John Millington Synge
Theatre in Dublin was the centre of the action. Synge and O´Casey were the main playwrights of the moment. One of the Synge´s first works was´Riders to the Sea´. -
´Tono-Bungay´ by Herbert George Wells
H.G. Wells was in no way a traditionalist. He had already become famous for his science fiction fantasies in the 1890s. He wrote several novels about working-class characters trying to improve their lives, and was very popular writer all his life. much more popular than Lawrence, Joyce and Woolf. -
The Imagist movement
It was a reaction against Romanticism. T. E. Hulme was an important figure in this movement. He wrote that he wanted a new kind of poetry, ´cheerful, dry and sophisticated´ -
The death of King Edward VII
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Coronation of King George V in india
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The Georgian Poets
They were a group whose work appeared in five volumes called ´Georgian Poetry´. Many of the most famous writers of the time are among them: Rupert Brooke, John Masefield, D. H. Lawrence, Siegfried Sasson and Robert Graves. -
Sinking of the Titanic
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´Sons and Lovers´
By David Herbert Lawrence. Is an autobiographical novel and is the best-know of his works with this settings and is one of the most succesful psychological novels of the century. -
George Bernard Shaw
His best known works was ´Pygmalion´. He used the theatre for discussion, not only for entertainment. -
Emily Davison
She was a British activist, suffrage activist, and martyr of the suffrage movement who was run over by King George V's horse -
´Dubliners´
By James Joyce. It has became one of the best-known books of its time. The term stream of consciousness is connected with James Joyce . -
The First World War
Germany nearly defeated the Allies, Brirain and
France, in th e first few weeks of war in 1914 . It had
better trained soldiers, better equipment and a clear
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William Somerset-Maugham
He was one of the most popular writers of his time. Well known for his short stories, and hugely succesful as a playwright. His novel ´Of Human Bondage´ is almost autobiographical. -
John Buchan
´The Thirty-nine Steps´ is his best-known work. Buchan´s novels of action were among the first examples of the spy novels. -
Bolshevik Revolution
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Gerard Manley Hopkins
He is a poet of changing times. His poems celebrate nature, but also show the great sadness and anxiety of society. Hopkins used what he called ´sprung rhythm´ to create the ´inscape´ of a poem. -
Siegfried Sassoon
Sassoon survived the war and wrote poems like ´The General´. He was the first to criticize the way the war was planned. -
End of the war
The arrival of American troops in France
ended Germany's hop es, and it surrendered in
November 1918. -
Wilfred Owen
the poets who wrote about the war from their own experience did not try to make the soldiers into heroes. Poems like ´Futility´ is elegies for a dead generation, poem about the wasteland of modern war. -
The rights of women
The war in 1914 changed everything. Britain would have been unable to continue the war with out th e women who took men 's places in the factories. By 1918 29 per cen t of the to tal workforce of Britain was female. Women had to be given the vote . But it was not until ten years later th at the voting age of women came down to twenty-one, equal with men. -
Treaty of Versailles
France and Britain met to discuss peace at Versailles in 1919. Germany was not invited to th e conference, but was forced to
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The Cinema
Eliot´s technique of moving quickly from one scene to another, is sometimes called cinematic. Certainly the quick movement of words and images becomes a feature of modernism. -
The world´s first radio broadcasting company
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Somerset Maugham
He was one of the most successful playwrights of his time. ´The Circle´ was one of his social comedies. -
´Jacob´s Room´
It was the first of her novels to use the impressionistic techniques which were to make her famous. -
´The Forsyte Saga´
John Galsworthy´s novels describe a higher social class than most of Bennett´s. Galsworthy also wrote several plays on social themes, but it is the upper-middle-class family of the Forsytes for which he is remenbered. -
Thomas Stearns Eliot
He is considered by many critics to be the most important poet in English in the Twentieth century. T. S. Eliot published ´The Waste Land, it has been considered the most important single poem of the century. -
Arnold Bennette
he wrote a great many works, including comic novels, and was the most popular and highest-paid journalist of his time. -
Evelyn Waugh
Her first novel was also a great success. It was ´Decline and Fall´. During and after the Second World War, she became one of the more serious novelists of the time. -
Sean O´Casey
O´Casey´s plays are set in Dublin and have a strong political content, for example, ´The Sbadow of a Gunman´. O´Casey´s plays are tragicomedies. -
Wedding of George VI and Elizabeth I
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´A Passage to India´
One of Edward Morgan Forster´s most famous works. Here the tensions are between the culture of East and West- the British colonial way of life and the local culture of India. -
Thomas Ernest Hulme
He was one of the first Modernists. His philosophy and the poems of the Imagists changed the way modern poetry was written. His essays were important, especially ´Speculations´ -
The first Labour governmen
The Labour Party, however, was not "socialist". Its leaders were, or had become, members of the middl e classes. Instead of a socia l revolut ion, they wanted to develop a kind of socialism that would fit
th e situat ion in Brita in -
New world's land speed record
Malcolm Campbell was an English racing driver and motorsport journalist. He held the world record for speed on land and in water several times during the 1920s and 1930s using vehicles called the Blue Bird -
A new technique
Christoper Isherwood used this distanced, objetive, photographic kind of narration in his two novels about Berlin -
Thirties poets
The poets who followed Eliot brought a new political tone into modern poetry. W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Louis MacNeice and C. Day-Levis are often considered together as a group. -
The depression
All over Europe and America a serious economic crisis, known as lithe depression", was tak ing place. It affected Brita in most severely from 1930 to 1933, when over three million workers were unemployed. -
King George V dies
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Graham Greence
He is oneof the most important novelists of the century. He wrote ´shockers´, adventure and spy stories. ´Brighton Rock´ is the best known. -
Second World War
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´Between the Acts´
By Virginia Woolf. It was her final work and prove her to be one of the most important and original novelists of the twentieth century. -
Virginia Woolf committed suicide.