Literature Timeline
Racial tensions/Technology
What is Modern?
attitude an author has toward his subject
tone
Hamlet
Shakespeare
greatest writer in the English language; developed almost 3,000 words into the English language; built the Globe Theatre
Shakespeare
Silas Marner's Occupation
weaver
Beowulf
Medieval
manner or speech characteristic of a certain area or class
dialect
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
Created the Byronic Hero
Lord Byron
from Hamlet
"the serpent that did sting thy father's life, now wears his crown."
The Ghost
Charles Dickens
Victorian
a narrative in which the character, places and events represent certain abstract qualities or ideas designed to teach some moral lesson or truth.
allegory
Silas Marner
George Elliot
developed Dramatic Monologue
Robert Browning
Person Hyde murdered
Sir Danvers Carew
Shakespeare
Elizabethan
originally any poem of solemn meditation; a formal poem lamenting the loss of a particular person; any poem dealing with death or loss
eligy
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
national poet of Scotland
Robert Burns
from A Christmas Carol
"Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone..."
Scrooge
Age of Prose
Neoclassical
poetic device in which lines flow past the end of one verse line and into the next with no punctuation
enjambment
Sonnets from the Portuguese
Elizabeth Browning
leading spokesman for early neoclassical values
Alexander Pope
from Heart of Darkness
Demonstrates vile desires, meanness, torment and anguish of soul.
Kurtz