English Literature

APPENDIX

1771-1832. Scott
1789-1799. French Revolution
1796-1816. Jane Austen’s novels

1798. Lyrical Balads of Wordsworth
      and Coleridge


1799. Union of Great Britain and Ireland


1800. Colonization of Australia 1802. Scotts Minstrelsy of the Scottish
      Border


1801. Battle of Trafalgar 1805-1817. Scotts poems


1802. Wordsworth’s Intimations of


1803. Abolition of slave trade Immortality. Lamb’s Tales
      from Shakespeare
      1808-1814. Peninsular War
      1809-1818. Byron’s Childe Harold


1804. Second war with United States 1810-1813. Coleridge’s Lectures on
      Shakespeare


1805. Congress of Vienna 1814-1831. Waverley Novels


1806. Battle of Waterloo


1807. Shelley’s Alastor


1808. Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria
      1817-1820. Keats’s poems
      1818-1820. Shelley’s Prometheus


1809. First Atlantic steamship


1810. George IV (d. 1830) 1820. Wordsworth’s Duddon Sonnets
      1820-1833. Lamb’s Essays of Elia


1811. De Quincey’s Confessions
      1824-1846. Landor’s Imaginary
      Conversations.


1812. First Temperance Society


1813. Catholic Emancipation Bill


1814. William IV (d. 1837) 1830. Tennyson’s first poems
      First railway


1815. Scott’s last novel


1816. Reform Bill


1817. Emancipation of slaves 1833. Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus
      Browning’s Pauline


1818. System of national education


1819. Victoria (d. 1901)
      1853-1861. De Quincey’s Collected