Unit 57. Great Britain in the inter-war years and during the World War II. Most representative authors.
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William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1936)
Poetry.
The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910) and Responsibilities (1914). The Tower (1928) and The Winding Stair and other Poems (1933). -
Edward Morgan Forster (1879 - 1970)
Prose.
Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905). A Room with a View (1908). Howards Ends (1910) and A Passage to India (1924). -
Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941)
Prose.
The Voyage Out (1915). Night and Day (1919). Jacob’s Room (1922). Mrs Dalloway (1925). To the Lighthouse (1927). The Waves (1931). Orlando, a Biography (1928). -
James Joyce (1882 - 1941)
Prose.
Dubliners (1914). A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916).
Ulysses (1922).
Finnegan’s Wake (1939). -
Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972)
Poetry.
A Lume Spento (1908), Personae (1909), Exultations (1909), Provenca (1910), Canzoni (1911), Lustra and Other Poems (1917), Quia Pauper Amavi (1919), and Umbra: Collected poems (1920). Patria Mia (1950). Annotated Index (1958), The Cantos (1972).
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Sean O'Casey (1884 - 1964)
Drama.
Juno and the Paycock (1924). The Plough and the Stars (1926). The Silver Tassie (1929). Within the Gates (1933), The Star Turns Red (1940), Purple Dust (1940), Red Roses for Me (1946), Oak Leaves and Lavender (1946), and Cockadoodle Dandy (1949). -
Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888 - 1965)
Poetry.
Prufrock and Other Observations (1917). Poems (1920). The Waste Land (1922). Ash Wednesday (1930). Four Quartets (1944). -
David Herbert Lawrence (1885 - 1930)
Prose.
The White Peacock (1911). Sons and Lovers (1913).
Aaron’s Rod (1922). Kangaroo (1923) and The Boy in the Bush (1924). The Plumed Serpent (1926). Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928). The Prussian Officer (1914); England, my England (1922); The Ladybird, The Fox, The Captain’s Doll (1923). Twilight in Italy (1916). -
Eugene O’Neill (1888 - 1953)
Drama.
The Emperor Jones (1920), Beyond the Horizon (1920), The Hairy Ape (1922) and Anna Christie (1922). Strange Interlude (1931). Dynamo (1929), Mourning Becomes Electra (1931), Ah! Wilderness (1933). -
Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
Prose.
The Defeat of Youth (1918). Leda (1920). Eyeless in Gaza (1936). Crome Yellow (1921). Antic Hay (1923). Point Counter Point (1928). Brave New World (1932). -
J. B. Priestley (1894 - 1984)
Drama.
Dangerous Corner (1932). Labrurnun Grove (1933).
They Came to a City (1943), Desert Highway (1943). The Edwardians (1970) and Victoria’s Heyday (1972). -
Sir Noël Coward (1899 - 1973)
Drama.
I’ll Leave It to You (1920), The Young Idea (1923), and The Rat Trap (1924). Bitter Sweet (1929), Private Lives (1930), Cavalcade (1931), Design for Living (1933), Conversation Piece (1934), Blithe Spirit (1941), Present Laughter (1943), and This Happy Breed (1943). -
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Boer War
A conflict which was fought between the British Empire and the two Boer Republics (the South African Republic and the Orange Free State) over the Empire's influence in Southern Africa. -
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Edwardian Age
Edward VII, was already the leader of a fashionable elite that set a style influenced by the art and fashions of continental Europe -
Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966)
Prose.
Decline and Fall (1928), Vile Bodies (1930), Black Mischief (1932), Scoop (1938). A sign of his growing seriousness and disillusion was The Loved One (1948). Sword of Honour trilogy -Men at arms (1952), Officers and Gentlemen (1955), and Unconditional Surrender (1961). -
George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
Prose.
Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936). Animal Farm (1945). Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). -
Graham Greene (1904 - 1991)
Prose.
It’s a Battlefield (1934), England Made Me (1935), Brighton Rock (1938), The Power and the Glory (1940), The Heart of the Matter (1948), The End of the Affair (1951). May We Borrow Your Husband? (1967). ‘Entertainments’: The Ministry of Fear (1943), The Third Man (1950). Our Man in Havana (1958). -
Wystan Hugh Auden (1907 - 1973)
Poetry.
Spain (1937). Nones (1951). Poems (1930), The Orators (1932), Look, Stranger (1936), New Year Letter (1941), The Age of Anxiety (1948), Collected Shorter Poems 1930-1944 (1950). -
Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953)
Poetry.
Eighteen Poems in 1934. Twenty-five Poems (1936). -
Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
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Home Rule Bill
The first major attempt made by a British government to enact a law creating home rule for part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. -
United Kingdom in the First World War
Firstly, Britain supported France and eventually went to war. -
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The First World War
Neither side gained any real advantage.
Home affairs: feeling of unrest.
International affairs: economic blockade on Germany. The German submarine. The USA were drawn into the war. -
The Treaty of Versailles.
The Allied and Associated Governments affirm and Germany accepts the responsibility of Germany and her allies for causing all the loss and damage to which the Allied and Associated Governments and their nationals have been subjected as a consequence of the war imposed upon them by the aggression of Germany and her allies. -
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The inter-War years
Literary background: dominance of the novel for sociological studies. Rebirth of drama.
Features: breakdown of established values, resurgence of poetry, desire for new forms and methods of presentation, the literature applied radio and cinema techniques, demand for more and faster action. -
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The 1920s
The British economy had undergone a downturn. -
Poetry
Disillusionment and despair. Sociological factors which affected poetry: demanded developments in technique, ‘vers libre’ and obscurity, psychology and politics, surrealism and new traditionalism, and the quest for stability (didactic verse). -
Drama
The Irish Literary Revival Drama. Sociological factors which affected drama. -
Prose
With a political, philosophical or social overtone. New techniques.
An interpreter of life. Impressionism and expressionism. The stream of consciousness. Lack of popularity of new authors. Literature of the War. Satire. Escapist novels. Autobiographical-novel-sketch comedies with tragic implications. The American novel. -
Irish Free State
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Equal Franchise Act
This act gave some women the vote in Parliamentary elections for the first time. -
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The 1930s
Improvements of the Conservative Party. Cooperation among the Commonwealth. -
Hitler invaded Poland
Because of this, Britain declared war on him -
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World War II
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The Declaration of the United Nations
Britain was alone in the West. Roosevelt moved to create the UN. -
Germany and Japan surrendered
After the Hitler's suicide and the two atomic bombs on Japan -
Educational implications in language teaching
Literature approached in linguistic terms and from a cross-curricular perspective.
New technologies.
British culture as basic competence.