A History of English Literature

it reflects Hardy’s idea of life as determined, not by heredity, environment and economics but by ‘crass Casualty’. Chance, in l ...

nPoetr y Aestheticism The old men wrote until they died: Browning in 1889, Tennyson in 1892, Morris in 1896, Swinburne in 1909. ...

great textual critic of Latin poetry, he kept his own verse quite separate, his second volume,Last Poems, appearing in 1922. A S ...

my England’. His ‘Madam Life’s a piece in bloom / Death goes dogging everywhere’, a realistic sketch of urban life, uses the fig ...

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Overview The war of 1914–18 made the England of Edward VII (1901–10) and of the start of George V’s reign seem forever ‘pre-war’ ...

Chesterton’s The Innocence of Father Brown (1911) and E. C. Bentley’s Trent’s Last Case (1913);and in Edwardian children’s books ...

Barrie was the only new theatrical talent, with The Admirable Crichton (1902) and What Every Woman Knows (1908). The Abbey Theat ...

motor cars. In Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows the ‘Poop, poop!’ of the motor car driven by Mr Toad embodies the unwel ...

spread as widely as possible, the central plank of a programme known as Distributism. He moved from the Anglican to the Catholic ...

The writer was Galsworthy, who was to help Conrad. In 1895, after more than a decade at sea, this Polish gentleman published Alm ...

Conrad’s narrator, unfolds his tale to three men in a yawl at the mouth of the Thames. His nightmare experience has affected him ...

within an enormous semicircular and unroofed temple open to the ocean, with its walls of lofty mountains hung with the mourning ...

trial, she withdraws the charge, but Aziz turns away from Fielding’s friendship towards an India without the British. Connection ...

More attractive if less economical is Parade’s End (1924–8), a quartet also known as the Tietjens tetralogy, after its hero Chri ...

(2000), an anthology arranged by the date of a poem’s first appearance, it comes as a shock to see among the poems of 1916, imme ...

Wordsworth had more poems than Hardy; in Philip Larkin’s Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Verse(1973), Hardy had more than any o ...

Only thin smoke without flame From the heaps of couch-grass; Yet this will go onward the same Though Dynasties pass. Yonder a ma ...