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18C-19C: Neoclassicism, Romanticism

• REYNOLDS Joshua
  • Lady Sarah Bunbury Sacrificing to the Graces (1765)
  • The Age of Innocence (1788)
• GAINSBOROUGH Thomas
  • Mr and Mrs Andrews (1750)
  • The Blue Boy (1770)
• CONSTABLE John
  • Dedham Vale (1802)
  • The Hay Wain (1821)
• TURNER J.M.W.
  • The Fighting Temeraire (1839)
  • Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth (1842)
  • Rain, Steam and Speed (1844)

19C: Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

• HUNT William Holman
  • The Light of the World (1851-53)
  • The Awakening Conscience (1853)
• MILLAIS John Everett
  • Christ in the House of His Parents (1850)
  • Ophelia (1851-52)
• ROSSETTI Dante Gabriel
  • Beata Beatrix (1864-70)
  • Proserpine (1874)

20C: Modernism

• BACON Francis
  • Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion (1944)
  • Study after Velázquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X (1953)
• FREUD Lucian
  • Girl with a White Dog (1951-52)
  • Benefits Supervisor Sleeping (1995)
• HOCKNEY David
  • A Bigger Splash (1967)
  • Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy (1970-71)

17C-18C: Baroque, Early Classical

• PURCELL Henry
  • Dido and Aeneas (1689)
  • Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary (1695)

19C: Romanticism

• ELGAR Edward
  • Enigma Variations (1899)
  • Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 (1901)

20C: Modernism, Nationalism

• VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Ralph
  • Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (1910)
  • The Lark Ascending (1914)
• HOLST Gustav
  • The Planets (1916)
• BRITTEN Benjamin
  • Peter Grimes (1945)
  • War Requiem (1962)

20C-21C: Contemporary

• ADÈS Thomas
  • Asyla (1997)
  • The Tempest (2004)

Old English (450-1150)

• Unknown | epic poetry
  • Beowulf (11C?)

Middle English (1150-1500)

• CHAUCER Geoffrey
  • The Canterbury Tales (1400)

16C-17C: English Renaissance (1500-1660)

• HOBBES Thomas | philosophy
  • Leviathan (1651)
• SHAKESPEARE William | drama
  • Romeo and Juliet (1597)
  • Julius Caesar (1599)
  • Much Ado About Nothing (1600)
  • The Merchant of Venice (1600)
  • Hamlet (1603)
  • Othello (1603)
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1605)
  • Macbeth (1606)
  • Sonnets (1609)
  • The Tempest (1611)
  • As You Like It (1623)
  • All’s Well That Ends Well (1623)

18C: Enlightenment (Neoclassical) Period (1660-1785)

• BURKE Edmund | political philosophy
  • Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
  • An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs (1791)
• DEFOE Daniel
  • Robinson Crusoe (1719)
• JOHNSON Samuel
  • The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749)
• LOCKE John | philosophy
  • Two Treatises of Government (1689)
  • An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)
  • Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
• SMITH Adam | economics
  • The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)
  • The Wealth of Nations (1776)
• SWIFT Jonathan | satire
  • Gulliver’s Travels (1726)

18C-19C: Romantic Period (1785-1837)

• AUSTEN Jane
  • Sense and Sensibility (1811)
  • Pride and Prejudice (1813)
  • Emma (1815)
  • Persuasion (1818)
• BYRON Lord | poetry
  • Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1818)
  • Don Juan (1819)

19C: Victorian Era (1837-1900)

• BRONTË Charlotte
  • Jane Eyre (1847)
• BRONTË Emily
  • Wuthering Heights (1847)
• CARROLL Lewis
  • Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
• DARWIN Charles | science
  • On the Origin of Species (1859)
• DICKENS Charles
  • Oliver Twist (1837)
  • The Old Curiosity Shop (1840)
  • A Christmas Carol (1843)
  • David Copperfield (1849)
  • A Child’s History of England (1851)
  • Bleak House (1852)
  • Hard Times (1854)
  • Little Dorrit (1857)
  • A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
  • Great Expectations (1860)
• DOYLE Arthur Conan
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892)
• ELIOT George
  • The Lifted Veil (1859)
  • The Mill on the Floss (1860)
  • Middlemarch (1871)
• HARDY Thomas
  • The Return of the Native (1878)
  • The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886)
  • Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891)
  • Jude the Obscure (1895)
  • The Scarlet Letter (1850)
• MILL John Stuart | philosophy
  • On Liberty (1859)
  • Utilitarianism (1861)
  • The Subjection of Women (1869)
• STEVENSON Robert Louis
  • Treasure Island (1883)

20C Modernism

• BURGESS Anthony
  • A Clockwork Orange (1962)
• CONRAD Joseph
  • Lord Jim (1900)
• CRONIN A. J.
  • The Citadel (1937)
• GOLDING William
  • Lord of the Flies (1954)
• LAWRENCE D. H.
  • Sons and Lovers (1913)
  • The Rainbow (1915)
  • Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928)
• LEE Harper
  • To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)
• LESSING Doris
  • The Grass is Singing (1950)
  • Martha Quest (1952)
  • The Golden Notebook (1962)
  • To Room Nineteen (1978)
  • On Cats (1985)
  • The Fifth Child (1988)
• MAUGHAM W. Somerset
  • Of Human Bondage (1915)
  • The Moon and Sixpence (1919)
  • The Painted Veil (1925)
• MURDOCH Iris | philosophy
  • Under the Net (1954)
  • The Bell (1958)
  • The Sovereignty of Good (1970)
  • The Sea, The Sea (1978)
  • The Philosopher’s Pupil (1983)
  • Existentialists and Mystics (1997)
• ORWELL George
  • Homage to Catalonia (1938)
  • Animal Farm (1945)
  • 1984 (1949)
• WAUGH Evelyn
  • A Handful of Dust (1934)
  • Brideshead Revisited (1945)
• WOOLF Virginia
  • The Common Reader (1925)
  • Mrs Dalloway (1925)
  • To the Lighthouse (1927)
  • A Room of One’s Own (1929)

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