Global Experience
Modernist Era(1901–1945): Life in England throughout and after the war. Many artists turned their back on traditional writing styles considering them outdated, and instead chose to try and make their own.
Romantic Era(1798–1837): Rapid growth of cities and destruction of countrysides. Many writers of this era yearned to escape from the encroaching city life, either to nature or to lands far away.
Victorian Era (1832-1900): Named after Queen Victoria, this period sees a large growth in prose writers. Due to higher literacy rates many writers enjoyed much more popularity.
Late-Modern Era (1946-2000): Focus on the effects and aftermath of colonialism. Many questions on what it means to be British.
Wordsworth
Coleridge
Keats
Dickens
Arnold
Hopkins
Hardy
Owen
Eliot
Woolf
Kureishi
Akomfrah
Smith
Class Disparities: Highlights the differences between social classes, and the effects they can have.
We Are Seven
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
Strange fits of passion I have known
A slumber did my spirit seal
My hearts leaps up when I behold
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Shelley
Kubla Khan
Ozymandias
Ode to the West Wind
The Cloud
The Waning Moon
To the Moon
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ode on Melancholy
La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad
Sonnet: When I have fears...
Sonnet: Bright Star
Hard Times
The Buried Life
The Scholar Gypsy
Dover Beach
God's Grandeur
As Kingfishers Catch Fire
The Windhover
Pied Beauty
Spring and Fall: to a young child
Tess of the D'Urbervilles:
Mrs. Dalloway
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
The Wasteland
Anthem for Doomed Youth
Dulce Et Decorum Est
Strange Meeting
Buddha of Suburbia
Handsworth Songs
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Race: Shows the focus and effects of race and colonialism in London and the difficulties of living in a society where you are not accepted.
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Feelings of Alienation: Deals with feelings of not belonging.
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Rejecting Change in Society: Have a key theme of society changing for the worse in the authors eye.
Urban Life: A major part of these stories is what city life is like in London and how the citizens interact.
Pain Of The War
Loneliness: Deals with deep loneliness and a detachment from society.
Imaginative Escapism: Focuses on escaping from the time through exciting or larger than life stories.
Reflections on the Past: Focus on the beauty of the past or the similarities to the past and the time of writing.
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Dealing With Others Perceptions: A major theme in these works is the narrators perception of how people see them, and confronting this perception.
Dealing With Trauma: Each deals with the character or author going through emotional and difficult experiences.
Natural Escapism: Focuses on escaping from the changes of a developing society by using nature to reflect and escape