1. FROM VICTORIAN TO POST MODERN AGE Literature3

2. 19th Century growth of adultliteracy popularity of the novel change in thesubjects Thegreatestwriters: CHARLES DICKENS THE BRONTËS

3. AMERICAN LITERATURE Early 19th Century Edgar Allan Poe Nathaniel Hawthorne Herman Melville Mark Twain Walt Whitman Emily Dickinson

4. LaterVictorian Anthony Trollope Wilkie Collins William MakepeaceThackeray George Eliot Thomas Hardy

5. MODERN LITERATURE Early 20th Century W.B.(William Butler) Yeats T.S.(Thomas Stearns) Eliot > dominatedModernPoetry * EzraPound * William Carlos Williams IMAGISM

6. Victorian, Edwardian and Georgianpoetswhogotprominenceafter W.W.1 Thomas Hardy RudyardKipling A.E. Housman Edward Thomas Rupert Brooke SiegfriedSassoon Wilfred Owen Isaac Rosenberg Robert Frost

7. EARLY MODERN WRITERS Henry James Joseph Conrad George Bernard Shaw H.G. Wells E.M. Foster

8. JAMES JOYCE VIRGINIA WOOLF Challengetraditionalnarrativemethods of viewpoint and structure.

10. Evelyn Waugh

11. Graham Greene

12. William Golding (1983 Nobel prize-winner)

14. Philip Larkin

15. R.S. Thomas

16. ThomGunn

17. Ted Hughes