VI. The Modern Period (ca. 1914-     )
Representative works including:

  • works by Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
  • works by Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
  • Heart of Darkness —Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
  • “The Second Coming”—William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
  • works by James Joyce (1882-1941)
  • “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and “The Waste Land”
    —T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)
  • Samuel Beckett (1906-     )
  • “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)
  • 1984 —George Orwell



Sites That You May Find Useful

An Index of Web Sites on Modernism. General Resources
William Golding
George Orwell
What the Thunder Said: Resources on T.S. Eliot
PBS 1997 Fall Season Highlights
PBS 1997 Fall Season Highlights - SISTER WENDY'S STORY OF PAINTING
The Battle of Britain - 1940
The Battle of Britain - 1940
The Battle of Britain - 1940
Cold War Hot Links: Web Sorces Relating to the Cold War
Military history
World War I (1914-1918)




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