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In the Western classical tradition, Homer (/ˈhoʊmər/; Ancient Greek: Ὅμηρος [hómɛːros], Hómēros) is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and is revered as the greatest of ancient Greek epic poets. These epics lie at the beginning of the Western canon of literature, and have had an enormous influence on the history of literature.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer
John Locke FRS (/ˈlɒk/; 29 August 1632 -- 28 October 1704), widely known as the Father of Classical Liberalism,[2][3][4] was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers. Considered one of the first of the British empiricists, following the tradition of Francis Bacon, he is equally important to social contract theory. His work greatly affected the development of epistemology and political philosophy. His writings influenced Voltaire and Rousseau, many Scottish Enlightenment thinkers, as well as the American revolutionaries. His contributions to classical republicanism and liberal theory are reflected in the United States Declaration of Independence.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Locke
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 -- 25 August 1900) was a German philologist, philosopher, cultural critic, poet and composer. He wrote several critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy and science, displaying a fondness for metaphor, irony and aphorism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nietzsche
Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski;:11--12 Berdichev, Imperial Russia, 3 December 1857 -- 3 August 1924, Bishopsbourne, Kent, England) was a Polish author who wrote in English after settling in England. He was granted British nationality in 1886, but always considered himself a Pole. Conrad is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English, though he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties (and always with a marked accent). He wrote stories and novels, often with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an indifferent universe. He was a master prose stylist who brought a distinctly non-English tragic sensibility into English literature.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_conrad
Adeline Virginia Woolf (/ˈwʊlf/; 25 January 1882 -- 28 March 1941) was an English writer, and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century.
During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a central figure in the influential Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929), with its famous dictum, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_woolf
- published: 30 Jan 2014
- views: 7260
Literary History Timeline
* Historical or non-English / American item
? B.C. — A. D. 428: Celtic and Roman Britain
428 — 1100: Old English (Anglo-Saxon) Period
c. 700 — Beowulf composed in present form
*1066 — Battle of Hastings (Norman Conquest)
*1215 — Signing of Magna Carta
*c. 1307 — 1321 — Dante's Divina Commedia
1350 — 1500: Middle English Period
c. 1387 — Chaucer, "Prologue" to Canterbury Tales
*1492 — Columbus lands in America
1500 — 1660: The Renaissance (in England; 1607 - 1780 is considered the "Colonial" period in America)
*1517 —Martin Luther posts his theses in Wittenberg, leading to Protestant Reformation
*1532 — Machiavelli, The Prince
1539 — English Bible (the "Great Bible") published
*1558 — 1603 — Reign of Queen Elizabeth I
1564 — 1616 — Life of William Shakespeare
1601 — Shakespeare's Hamlet
*1605 — Cervantes, Don Quixote, Part I
*1607 — Settlement at Jamestown, Virginia
1611 — King James translation of the Bible
*1620 — Pilgrims land at Plymouth
*1640 — Bay Psalm Book: first book printed in America
*1649 — Execution of Charles I
*1649 — 1660 — Commonwealth Period–England ruled by Parliament
1660 — 1798: Neoclassical Period (also known as "The Long 18th Century")
*1660 — Charles II restored to the throne ("The Restoration")
1667 — John Milton, Paradise Lost
*1687 — Sir Isaac Newton, Principia Mathematica
*1692 — Salem witchcraft executions
1719 — Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
1726 — Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels
1740 — Samuel Richardson, Pamela
1740-5 — The Great Awakening (religious revival)
1749 — Henry Fielding, Tom Jones
*1751 — Gray, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"
1755 - Ben Johnson, Dictionary
1760-67 — Lawrence Stern, Tristram Shandy
1765-1830 — Revolutionary and Early National Period
*1770 — Oliver Goldsmith, "The Deserted Village"
1771 — Ben Franklin, Autobiography
1775-1783 — Revolutionary War
1776 —Declaration of Independence
1783-85 — Noah Webster, Grammatical Institute of the English Language (speller, grammar, reader)
*1789 — French Revolution begins
1798-1832: Romantic Period
1798 — William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads
1811 — Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
1817 — Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
1819 — Lord Byron, Don Juan I and II
*1820 — The Missouri Compromise
1820 — Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
1830 — Edgar Allan Poe, Poems
1832-1870: Early Victorian Age (English Literature)
1836 — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature
1836 — Charles Dickens, Pickwick Papers
1837 — Nathaniel Hawthorne, Twice-Told Tales
1842 — Robert Browning, Dramatic Lyrics; Lord Tennyson, Poems
1845 — Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
1847 — Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights; Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
1847-8 — Thackeray, Vanity Fair
1849 — Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
1850 — Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese
1850 — Nathaniel Hawthorne, Scarlet Letter
1851 — Herman Melville, Moby Dick
1852 — Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
1854 — Henry David Thoreau, Walden
1855 — Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
1859 — Charles Darwin, Origin of the Species
1860 — George Eliot, Mill on the Floss
*1860-5 — American Civil War
1865-1914: Realistic Period (American Literature)
1867 — Karl Marx, Das Kapital
1868 — Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
1872 — George Eliot, Middlemarch
1874 — Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
1876 — Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer
1879 — Henry James, Daisy Miller; * Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House
1883 — Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
1884 — Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn
1891 — Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
1893 — George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren’s Profession
1895 — Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest; Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage
1900-1930: Naturalistic and Symbolistic Period (American Only)
1900 — Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie
1901-1910: Edwardian Period
1903 — Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness; Jack London, The Call of the Wild
1905 — Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth
1907 — John Millington Synge, Playboy of the Western World
1913 — D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers; Willa Cather, O Pioneers!
1914-1918: First World War
1917 — T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
1921- Aldous Huxley, Chrome Yellow
1922 - James Joyce, Ulysses; T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land
1924 - E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
- published: 27 Feb 2016
- views: 545
Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, writer of short stories, and poet from the American Renaissance period. The bulk of his writings was published between 1846 and 1857. Best known for his whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851), he is also legendary for having been forgotten during the last thirty years of his life. Melville's writing is characteristic for its allusivity. "In Melville's manipulation of his reading," scholar Stanley T. Williams wrote, "was a transforming power comparable to Shakespeare's."[1]
Born in New York City, he was the third child of a merchant in French dry-goods, with Revolutionary War heroes for grandfathers. Not long after the death of his father in 1832, his schooling stopped abruptly. After having been a schoolteacher for a short time, he signed up for a merchant voyage to Liverpool in 1839. A year and a half into his first whaling voyage, in 1842 he jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands, where he lived among the natives for a month. His first book, Typee (1846) became a huge bestseller which called for a sequel, Omoo (1847). The same year Melville married Elizabeth Knapp Shaw; their four children were all born between 1849 and 1855.
In August 1850, having moved to Pittsfield, he established a profound friendship with Nathaniel Hawthorne, though the relationship lost intensity after the latter moved away. Moby-Dick (1851) did not become a success, and Pierre (1852) put an end to his career as a popular author. From 1853 to 1856 he wrote short fiction for magazines, collected as The Piazza Tales (1856). In 1857, while Melville was on a voyage to England and the Near East, The Confidence-Man appeared, the last prose work published during his lifetime. From then on Melville turned to poetry. Having secured a position of Customs Inspector in New York, his poetic reflection on the Civil War appeared as Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866).
In 1867 his oldest child Malcolm died at home from a self-inflicted gunshot. For the epic Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876) he drew upon his experience in Egypt and Palestine from twenty years earlier. In 1886 he retired as Customs Inspector and privately published some volumes of poetry in small editions. During the last years of his life, interest in him was reviving and he was approached to have his biography written, but his death in 1891 from cardiovascular disease subdued the revival before it could gain momentum. Inspired perhaps by the growing interest in him, in his final years he had been working on a prose story one more time and left the manuscript of Billy Budd, Sailor, which was published in 1924.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Melville
Henry David Thoreau (see name pronunciation; July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American author, poet, philosopher, polymath, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist.[2] He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Resistance to Civil Government (also known as Civil Disobedience), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.
Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions are his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern-day environmentalism. His literary style interweaves close natural observation, personal experience, pointed rhetoric, symbolic meanings, and historical lore, while displaying a poetic sensibility, philosophical austerity, and "Yankee" love of practical detail.[3] He was also deeply interested in the idea of survival in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay; at the same time he advocated abandoning waste and illusion in order to discover life's true essential needs.[3]
He was a lifelong abolitionist, delivering lectures that attacked the Fugitive Slave Law while praising the writings of Wendell Phillips and defending abolitionist John Brown. Thoreau's philosophy of civil disobedience later influenced the political thoughts and actions of such notable figures as Leo Tolstoy, Mohandas Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau
- published: 06 Oct 2014
- views: 1848
In this AICGS interview, journalist and writer Peter Ross Range sits down with AICGS President Dr. Jackson Janes to discuss his new book 1924: The Year That Made Hitler. Diving into his pursuit to fill a literature gap in the year that witnessed Adolf Hitler's final transformation into the self-proclaimed savior and infallible leader, Mr. Range shares his insight on continuing efforts to address the Nazi past in Germany and comments on some parallels of Hitler's political strategies in present-day political figures.
- published: 10 Mar 2016
- views: 243
This short film, produced and created by Rob Johnson of San Rafael, CA, is an introduction to an interdisciplinary unit on the Music, Art, and Literature of the Harlem Renaissance. The Harlem Renaissance (also known as the Black Literary Renaissance and the New Negro Movement) refers to the flowering of African American cultural and intellectual life during the 1920s and 1930s. At the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement", named after the 1925 anthology The New Negro edited by Alain Locke. Centered in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, the movement impacted urban centers throughout the United States. Across the cultural spectrum (literature, drama, music, visual art, dance) and also in the realm of social thought (sociology, historiography, philosophy), artists and intellectuals found new ways to explore the historical experiences of black America and the contemporary experiences of black life in the urban North. Challenging white paternalism and racism, African-American artists and intellectuals rejected imitating the styles of Europeans and white Americans and instead celebrated black dignity and creativity. Asserting their freedom to express themselves on their own terms, they explored their identities as black Americans, celebrating the black culture that had emerged out of slavery, as well as cultural ties to Africa. The Harlem Renaissance had a profound impact not only on African-American culture but also on the cultures of the African diaspora. Afro-Caribbean artists and intellectuals from the British West Indies, who had migrated to New York in number, were part of the movement. Moreover, many French-speaking black writers from African and Caribbean colonies who lived in Paris were also influenced by the Harlem Renaissance.[1] Historians disagree as to when the Harlem Renaissance began and ended. It is unofficially recognized to have spanned from about 1919 until the early or mid 1930s. Many of its ideas lived on much longer. The zenith of this "flowering of Negro literature", as James Weldon Johnson preferred to call the Harlem Renaissance, is placed between 1924 (the year that Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life hosted a party for black writers where many white publishers were in attendance) and 1929 (the year of the stock market crash and the beginning of the Great Depression). In 1917 Hubert Harrison, "The Father of Harlem Radicalism," founded the Liberty League and The Voice, the first organization and the first newspaper of the "New Negro Movement". Harrison's organization and newspaper were political, but also emphasized the arts (his newspaper had "Poetry for the People" and book review sections). In 1927, in the Pittsburgh Courier, Harrison challenged the notion of the renaissance. He argued that the "Negro Literary Renaissance" notion overlooked "the stream of literary and artistic products which had flowed uninterruptedly from Negro writers from 1850 to the present", and said the so-called "renaissance" was largely a white invention. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem_Renaissance)
- published: 04 Sep 2009
- views: 189745
‘Awr Dywyll’ (1924)
John Jones
Appeared in a slim volume of poetry published in 1924 entitled O Lwch y Lolfa :Cyfrol o Ganu gan Chwech of Lowyr Sir Gar. We have been unable to locate the copyright holder and would be pleased to hear from anyone who may be able to help.
Read by Heledd Gwynne
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Yn nyfnder nos, a’r byd mewn tawel hûn
Gadawodd tyrfa ddu dynelau mwll;
’Roedd chwys ar ael pob gwr – ag eithro un,
Ac nid oedd rhêg i’w chlywed gylch y pwll.
Y ddoe bu’n dadleu’n ddiflin hawliau’r rhai
Sydd heno’n cludo’i gorff i’w gartre’n fud,
Gan gamu’n wylaidd; a phwy all’sai lai
Na gweld rhigolau garw’r chwysu drud.
Cadd ddannod droeon “oriau gweithio bach”
A “chyflog dda” gan rai na wyddant fawr
Am ddim ond chawarae i fyw mewn awyr iach,
Ac yntau’n torri ’i ffordd mewn nos ddi-wawr.
Yn fud bydd fory’r gainc mewn bwthyn clyd,
A thradwy angladd wrth addoldy’r glyn;
Na feier un na wêl o druan fyd
Drwy’r dyrfa ddu, y dorf mewn “gynau gwyn.”
- published: 15 Feb 2016
- views: 4
The book "A Passage to India" by E. M. Forster is based on the subject of the relationship between the East and West. The story is set against the backdrop of the British Raj in India and it moves along the Independence movement in India in the 1920s.
"A Passage to India" was considered as one of the 100 great works of English Literature by the Modern Library.
The book won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction in the year 1924.
It was also included in the list of TIME Best English language Novels from 1923 to 2005.
It is highly descriptive novel based on Forster's experiences in India.
The title of the book was borrowed from the poem "Leaves of Grass" written by Walt Whitman.
- published: 01 Jan 2013
- views: 9991
Five Children and It audiobook
E. (Edith) NESBIT (1858 - 1924)
http://free-audio-books.info/childrens-literature/five-children-and-it-audiobook/
This delightful novel begins when a family of five children moves from London to the English countryside. While playing in a gravel pit soon after the move, they discover an ancient and rather grumpy sand-fairy known as the Psammead, who agrees to grant one wish of theirs per day. The children's wishes send them on adventure after adventure, but rarely turn out as expected. (Summary by Kara)
Genre(s): Children's Fiction, Action & Adventure Fiction, Fantastic Fiction
Language: English (FULL Audiobook)
- published: 14 Sep 2013
- views: 18348
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6:41ANBStudios Presents In Loving Memory Of Assyria Literature Late Rabi Issa Benyamin 1924-2014
ANBStudios Presents In Loving Memory Of Assyria Literature Late Rabi Issa Benyamin 1924-2014ANBStudios Presents In Loving Memory Of Assyria Literature Late Rabi Issa Benyamin 1924-2014
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57:33What Are the Great Books of Western Literature? Homer, Locke, Nietzsche. Conrad, Woolf (1996)
What Are the Great Books of Western Literature? Homer, Locke, Nietzsche. Conrad, Woolf (1996)What Are the Great Books of Western Literature? Homer, Locke, Nietzsche. Conrad, Woolf (1996)
In the Western classical tradition, Homer (/ˈhoʊmər/; Ancient Greek: Ὅμηρος [hómɛːros], Hómēros) is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and is revered as the greatest of ancient Greek epic poets. These epics lie at the beginning of the Western canon of literature, and have had an enormous influence on the history of literature. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer John Locke FRS (/ˈlɒk/; 29 August 1632 -- 28 October 1704), widely known as the Father of Classical Liberalism,[2][3][4] was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers. Considered one of the first of the British empiricists, following the tradition of Francis Bacon, he is equally important to social contract theory. His work greatly affected the development of epistemology and political philosophy. His writings influenced Voltaire and Rousseau, many Scottish Enlightenment thinkers, as well as the American revolutionaries. His contributions to classical republicanism and liberal theory are reflected in the United States Declaration of Independence. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Locke Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 -- 25 August 1900) was a German philologist, philosopher, cultural critic, poet and composer. He wrote several critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy and science, displaying a fondness for metaphor, irony and aphorism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nietzsche Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski;:11--12 Berdichev, Imperial Russia, 3 December 1857 -- 3 August 1924, Bishopsbourne, Kent, England) was a Polish author who wrote in English after settling in England. He was granted British nationality in 1886, but always considered himself a Pole. Conrad is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English, though he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties (and always with a marked accent). He wrote stories and novels, often with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an indifferent universe. He was a master prose stylist who brought a distinctly non-English tragic sensibility into English literature. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_conrad Adeline Virginia Woolf (/ˈwʊlf/; 25 January 1882 -- 28 March 1941) was an English writer, and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a central figure in the influential Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929), with its famous dictum, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_woolf -
7:26English Literary HistoryPeriods
English Literary HistoryPeriodsEnglish Literary HistoryPeriods
Literary History Timeline * Historical or non-English / American item ? B.C. — A. D. 428: Celtic and Roman Britain 428 — 1100: Old English (Anglo-Saxon) Period c. 700 — Beowulf composed in present form *1066 — Battle of Hastings (Norman Conquest) *1215 — Signing of Magna Carta *c. 1307 — 1321 — Dante's Divina Commedia 1350 — 1500: Middle English Period c. 1387 — Chaucer, "Prologue" to Canterbury Tales *1492 — Columbus lands in America 1500 — 1660: The Renaissance (in England; 1607 - 1780 is considered the "Colonial" period in America) *1517 —Martin Luther posts his theses in Wittenberg, leading to Protestant Reformation *1532 — Machiavelli, The Prince 1539 — English Bible (the "Great Bible") published *1558 — 1603 — Reign of Queen Elizabeth I 1564 — 1616 — Life of William Shakespeare 1601 — Shakespeare's Hamlet *1605 — Cervantes, Don Quixote, Part I *1607 — Settlement at Jamestown, Virginia 1611 — King James translation of the Bible *1620 — Pilgrims land at Plymouth *1640 — Bay Psalm Book: first book printed in America *1649 — Execution of Charles I *1649 — 1660 — Commonwealth Period–England ruled by Parliament 1660 — 1798: Neoclassical Period (also known as "The Long 18th Century") *1660 — Charles II restored to the throne ("The Restoration") 1667 — John Milton, Paradise Lost *1687 — Sir Isaac Newton, Principia Mathematica *1692 — Salem witchcraft executions 1719 — Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe 1726 — Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels 1740 — Samuel Richardson, Pamela 1740-5 — The Great Awakening (religious revival) 1749 — Henry Fielding, Tom Jones *1751 — Gray, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" 1755 - Ben Johnson, Dictionary 1760-67 — Lawrence Stern, Tristram Shandy 1765-1830 — Revolutionary and Early National Period *1770 — Oliver Goldsmith, "The Deserted Village" 1771 — Ben Franklin, Autobiography 1775-1783 — Revolutionary War 1776 —Declaration of Independence 1783-85 — Noah Webster, Grammatical Institute of the English Language (speller, grammar, reader) *1789 — French Revolution begins 1798-1832: Romantic Period 1798 — William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads 1811 — Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility 1817 — Mary Shelley, Frankenstein 1819 — Lord Byron, Don Juan I and II *1820 — The Missouri Compromise 1820 — Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe 1830 — Edgar Allan Poe, Poems 1832-1870: Early Victorian Age (English Literature) 1836 — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature 1836 — Charles Dickens, Pickwick Papers 1837 — Nathaniel Hawthorne, Twice-Told Tales 1842 — Robert Browning, Dramatic Lyrics; Lord Tennyson, Poems 1845 — Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven 1847 — Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights; Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre 1847-8 — Thackeray, Vanity Fair 1849 — Charles Dickens, David Copperfield 1850 — Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese 1850 — Nathaniel Hawthorne, Scarlet Letter 1851 — Herman Melville, Moby Dick 1852 — Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin 1854 — Henry David Thoreau, Walden 1855 — Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass 1859 — Charles Darwin, Origin of the Species 1860 — George Eliot, Mill on the Floss *1860-5 — American Civil War 1865-1914: Realistic Period (American Literature) 1867 — Karl Marx, Das Kapital 1868 — Louisa May Alcott, Little Women 1872 — George Eliot, Middlemarch 1874 — Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd 1876 — Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer 1879 — Henry James, Daisy Miller; * Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House 1883 — Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island 1884 — Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn 1891 — Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles 1893 — George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren’s Profession 1895 — Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest; Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage 1900-1930: Naturalistic and Symbolistic Period (American Only) 1900 — Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie 1901-1910: Edwardian Period 1903 — Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness; Jack London, The Call of the Wild 1905 — Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth 1907 — John Millington Synge, Playboy of the Western World 1913 — D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers; Willa Cather, O Pioneers! 1914-1918: First World War 1917 — T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" 1921- Aldous Huxley, Chrome Yellow 1922 - James Joyce, Ulysses; T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land 1924 - E.M. Forster, A Passage to India -
62:03Why Classic American Literature Remains Indispensable: Writers (1997)
Why Classic American Literature Remains Indispensable: Writers (1997)Why Classic American Literature Remains Indispensable: Writers (1997)
Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, writer of short stories, and poet from the American Renaissance period. The bulk of his writings was published between 1846 and 1857. Best known for his whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851), he is also legendary for having been forgotten during the last thirty years of his life. Melville's writing is characteristic for its allusivity. "In Melville's manipulation of his reading," scholar Stanley T. Williams wrote, "was a transforming power comparable to Shakespeare's."[1] Born in New York City, he was the third child of a merchant in French dry-goods, with Revolutionary War heroes for grandfathers. Not long after the death of his father in 1832, his schooling stopped abruptly. After having been a schoolteacher for a short time, he signed up for a merchant voyage to Liverpool in 1839. A year and a half into his first whaling voyage, in 1842 he jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands, where he lived among the natives for a month. His first book, Typee (1846) became a huge bestseller which called for a sequel, Omoo (1847). The same year Melville married Elizabeth Knapp Shaw; their four children were all born between 1849 and 1855. In August 1850, having moved to Pittsfield, he established a profound friendship with Nathaniel Hawthorne, though the relationship lost intensity after the latter moved away. Moby-Dick (1851) did not become a success, and Pierre (1852) put an end to his career as a popular author. From 1853 to 1856 he wrote short fiction for magazines, collected as The Piazza Tales (1856). In 1857, while Melville was on a voyage to England and the Near East, The Confidence-Man appeared, the last prose work published during his lifetime. From then on Melville turned to poetry. Having secured a position of Customs Inspector in New York, his poetic reflection on the Civil War appeared as Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866). In 1867 his oldest child Malcolm died at home from a self-inflicted gunshot. For the epic Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876) he drew upon his experience in Egypt and Palestine from twenty years earlier. In 1886 he retired as Customs Inspector and privately published some volumes of poetry in small editions. During the last years of his life, interest in him was reviving and he was approached to have his biography written, but his death in 1891 from cardiovascular disease subdued the revival before it could gain momentum. Inspired perhaps by the growing interest in him, in his final years he had been working on a prose story one more time and left the manuscript of Billy Budd, Sailor, which was published in 1924. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Melville Henry David Thoreau (see name pronunciation; July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American author, poet, philosopher, polymath, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist.[2] He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Resistance to Civil Government (also known as Civil Disobedience), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state. Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions are his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern-day environmentalism. His literary style interweaves close natural observation, personal experience, pointed rhetoric, symbolic meanings, and historical lore, while displaying a poetic sensibility, philosophical austerity, and "Yankee" love of practical detail.[3] He was also deeply interested in the idea of survival in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay; at the same time he advocated abandoning waste and illusion in order to discover life's true essential needs.[3] He was a lifelong abolitionist, delivering lectures that attacked the Fugitive Slave Law while praising the writings of Wendell Phillips and defending abolitionist John Brown. Thoreau's philosophy of civil disobedience later influenced the political thoughts and actions of such notable figures as Leo Tolstoy, Mohandas Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau -
19:251924: The Year That Made Hitler - A Discussion with Peter Ross Range
1924: The Year That Made Hitler - A Discussion with Peter Ross Range1924: The Year That Made Hitler - A Discussion with Peter Ross Range
In this AICGS interview, journalist and writer Peter Ross Range sits down with AICGS President Dr. Jackson Janes to discuss his new book 1924: The Year That Made Hitler. Diving into his pursuit to fill a literature gap in the year that witnessed Adolf Hitler's final transformation into the self-proclaimed savior and infallible leader, Mr. Range shares his insight on continuing efforts to address the Nazi past in Germany and comments on some parallels of Hitler's political strategies in present-day political figures. -
9:55The Harlem Renaissance: The Rise of African American Literature, Art, and Music
The Harlem Renaissance: The Rise of African American Literature, Art, and MusicThe Harlem Renaissance: The Rise of African American Literature, Art, and Music
This short film, produced and created by Rob Johnson of San Rafael, CA, is an introduction to an interdisciplinary unit on the Music, Art, and Literature of the Harlem Renaissance. The Harlem Renaissance (also known as the Black Literary Renaissance and the New Negro Movement) refers to the flowering of African American cultural and intellectual life during the 1920s and 1930s. At the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement", named after the 1925 anthology The New Negro edited by Alain Locke. Centered in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, the movement impacted urban centers throughout the United States. Across the cultural spectrum (literature, drama, music, visual art, dance) and also in the realm of social thought (sociology, historiography, philosophy), artists and intellectuals found new ways to explore the historical experiences of black America and the contemporary experiences of black life in the urban North. Challenging white paternalism and racism, African-American artists and intellectuals rejected imitating the styles of Europeans and white Americans and instead celebrated black dignity and creativity. Asserting their freedom to express themselves on their own terms, they explored their identities as black Americans, celebrating the black culture that had emerged out of slavery, as well as cultural ties to Africa. The Harlem Renaissance had a profound impact not only on African-American culture but also on the cultures of the African diaspora. Afro-Caribbean artists and intellectuals from the British West Indies, who had migrated to New York in number, were part of the movement. Moreover, many French-speaking black writers from African and Caribbean colonies who lived in Paris were also influenced by the Harlem Renaissance.[1] Historians disagree as to when the Harlem Renaissance began and ended. It is unofficially recognized to have spanned from about 1919 until the early or mid 1930s. Many of its ideas lived on much longer. The zenith of this "flowering of Negro literature", as James Weldon Johnson preferred to call the Harlem Renaissance, is placed between 1924 (the year that Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life hosted a party for black writers where many white publishers were in attendance) and 1929 (the year of the stock market crash and the beginning of the Great Depression). In 1917 Hubert Harrison, "The Father of Harlem Radicalism," founded the Liberty League and The Voice, the first organization and the first newspaper of the "New Negro Movement". Harrison's organization and newspaper were political, but also emphasized the arts (his newspaper had "Poetry for the People" and book review sections). In 1927, in the Pittsburgh Courier, Harrison challenged the notion of the renaissance. He argued that the "Negro Literary Renaissance" notion overlooked "the stream of literary and artistic products which had flowed uninterruptedly from Negro writers from 1850 to the present", and said the so-called "renaissance" was largely a white invention. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem_Renaissance) -
1:09Awr Dywyll - John Jones - literature reading
Awr Dywyll - John Jones - literature readingAwr Dywyll - John Jones - literature reading
‘Awr Dywyll’ (1924) John Jones Appeared in a slim volume of poetry published in 1924 entitled O Lwch y Lolfa :Cyfrol o Ganu gan Chwech of Lowyr Sir Gar. We have been unable to locate the copyright holder and would be pleased to hear from anyone who may be able to help. Read by Heledd Gwynne --------- Yn nyfnder nos, a’r byd mewn tawel hûn Gadawodd tyrfa ddu dynelau mwll; ’Roedd chwys ar ael pob gwr – ag eithro un, Ac nid oedd rhêg i’w chlywed gylch y pwll. Y ddoe bu’n dadleu’n ddiflin hawliau’r rhai Sydd heno’n cludo’i gorff i’w gartre’n fud, Gan gamu’n wylaidd; a phwy all’sai lai Na gweld rhigolau garw’r chwysu drud. Cadd ddannod droeon “oriau gweithio bach” A “chyflog dda” gan rai na wyddant fawr Am ddim ond chawarae i fyw mewn awyr iach, Ac yntau’n torri ’i ffordd mewn nos ddi-wawr. Yn fud bydd fory’r gainc mewn bwthyn clyd, A thradwy angladd wrth addoldy’r glyn; Na feier un na wêl o druan fyd Drwy’r dyrfa ddu, y dorf mewn “gynau gwyn.” -
2:59ME AND THE BOY FRIEND by Jane Green 1924
ME AND THE BOY FRIEND by Jane Green 1924 -
14:59Literature Help 13: "A Passage to India" Plot Summary
Literature Help 13: "A Passage to India" Plot SummaryLiterature Help 13: "A Passage to India" Plot Summary
The book "A Passage to India" by E. M. Forster is based on the subject of the relationship between the East and West. The story is set against the backdrop of the British Raj in India and it moves along the Independence movement in India in the 1920s. "A Passage to India" was considered as one of the 100 great works of English Literature by the Modern Library. The book won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction in the year 1924. It was also included in the list of TIME Best English language Novels from 1923 to 2005. It is highly descriptive novel based on Forster's experiences in India. The title of the book was borrowed from the poem "Leaves of Grass" written by Walt Whitman. -
377:43Five Children and It (FULL Audiobook)
Five Children and It (FULL Audiobook)Five Children and It (FULL Audiobook)
Five Children and It audiobook E. (Edith) NESBIT (1858 - 1924) http://free-audio-books.info/childrens-literature/five-children-and-it-audiobook/ This delightful novel begins when a family of five children moves from London to the English countryside. While playing in a gravel pit soon after the move, they discover an ancient and rather grumpy sand-fairy known as the Psammead, who agrees to grant one wish of theirs per day. The children's wishes send them on adventure after adventure, but rarely turn out as expected. (Summary by Kara) Genre(s): Children's Fiction, Action & Adventure Fiction, Fantastic Fiction Language: English (FULL Audiobook)
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ANBStudios Presents In Loving Memory Of Assyria Literature Late Rabi Issa Benyamin 1924-2014
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What Are the Great Books of Western Literature? Homer, Locke, Nietzsche. Conrad, Woolf (1996)
In the Western classical tradition, Homer (/ˈhoʊmər/; Ancient Greek: Ὅμηρος [hómɛːros], Hómēros) is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and is revered as the greatest of ancient Greek epic poets. These epics lie at the beginning of the Western canon of literature, and have had an enormous influence on the history of literature. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer John Locke FRS (/ˈlɒk/; 29 August 1632 -- 28 October 1704), widely known as the Father of Classical Liberalism,[2][3][4] was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers. Considered one of the first of the British empiricists, following the tradition of Francis Bacon, he is equally important to social contract theory. His work greatly affected the development of epist... -
English Literary HistoryPeriods
Literary History Timeline * Historical or non-English / American item ? B.C. — A. D. 428: Celtic and Roman Britain 428 — 1100: Old English (Anglo-Saxon) Period c. 700 — Beowulf composed in present form *1066 — Battle of Hastings (Norman Conquest) *1215 — Signing of Magna Carta *c. 1307 — 1321 — Dante's Divina Commedia 1350 — 1500: Middle English Period c. 1387 — Chaucer, "Prologue" to Canterbury Tales *1492 — Columbus lands in America 1500 — 1660: The Renaissance (in England; 1607 - 1780 is considered the "Colonial" period in America) *1517 —Martin Luther posts his theses in Wittenberg, leading to Protestant Reformation *1532 — Machiavelli, The Prince 1539 — English Bible (the "Great Bible") published *1558 — 1603 — Reign of Queen Elizabeth I 1564 — 1616 — Life of William ... -
Why Classic American Literature Remains Indispensable: Writers (1997)
Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, writer of short stories, and poet from the American Renaissance period. The bulk of his writings was published between 1846 and 1857. Best known for his whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851), he is also legendary for having been forgotten during the last thirty years of his life. Melville's writing is characteristic for its allusivity. "In Melville's manipulation of his reading," scholar Stanley T. Williams wrote, "was a transforming power comparable to Shakespeare's."[1] Born in New York City, he was the third child of a merchant in French dry-goods, with Revolutionary War heroes for grandfathers. Not long after the death of his father in 1832, his schooling stopped abruptly. After having been a schoolteacher for a ... -
1924: The Year That Made Hitler - A Discussion with Peter Ross Range
In this AICGS interview, journalist and writer Peter Ross Range sits down with AICGS President Dr. Jackson Janes to discuss his new book 1924: The Year That Made Hitler. Diving into his pursuit to fill a literature gap in the year that witnessed Adolf Hitler's final transformation into the self-proclaimed savior and infallible leader, Mr. Range shares his insight on continuing efforts to address the Nazi past in Germany and comments on some parallels of Hitler's political strategies in present-day political figures. -
The Harlem Renaissance: The Rise of African American Literature, Art, and Music
This short film, produced and created by Rob Johnson of San Rafael, CA, is an introduction to an interdisciplinary unit on the Music, Art, and Literature of the Harlem Renaissance. The Harlem Renaissance (also known as the Black Literary Renaissance and the New Negro Movement) refers to the flowering of African American cultural and intellectual life during the 1920s and 1930s. At the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement", named after the 1925 anthology The New Negro edited by Alain Locke. Centered in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, the movement impacted urban centers throughout the United States. Across the cultural spectrum (literature, drama, music, visual art, dance) and also in the realm of social thought (sociology, historiography, philosophy), artists and intelle... -
Awr Dywyll - John Jones - literature reading
‘Awr Dywyll’ (1924) John Jones Appeared in a slim volume of poetry published in 1924 entitled O Lwch y Lolfa :Cyfrol o Ganu gan Chwech of Lowyr Sir Gar. We have been unable to locate the copyright holder and would be pleased to hear from anyone who may be able to help. Read by Heledd Gwynne --------- Yn nyfnder nos, a’r byd mewn tawel hûn Gadawodd tyrfa ddu dynelau mwll; ’Roedd chwys ar ael pob gwr – ag eithro un, Ac nid oedd rhêg i’w chlywed gylch y pwll. Y ddoe bu’n dadleu’n ddiflin hawliau’r rhai Sydd heno’n cludo’i gorff i’w gartre’n fud, Gan gamu’n wylaidd; a phwy all’sai lai Na gweld rhigolau garw’r chwysu drud. Cadd ddannod droeon “oriau gweithio bach” A “chyflog dda” gan rai na wyddant fawr Am ddim ond chawarae i fyw mewn awyr iach, Ac yntau’n torri ’i ffordd mewn nos ddi-w... -
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Literature Help 13: "A Passage to India" Plot Summary
The book "A Passage to India" by E. M. Forster is based on the subject of the relationship between the East and West. The story is set against the backdrop of the British Raj in India and it moves along the Independence movement in India in the 1920s. "A Passage to India" was considered as one of the 100 great works of English Literature by the Modern Library. The book won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction in the year 1924. It was also included in the list of TIME Best English language Novels from 1923 to 2005. It is highly descriptive novel based on Forster's experiences in India. The title of the book was borrowed from the poem "Leaves of Grass" written by Walt Whitman. -
Five Children and It (FULL Audiobook)
Five Children and It audiobook E. (Edith) NESBIT (1858 - 1924) http://free-audio-books.info/childrens-literature/five-children-and-it-audiobook/ This delightful novel begins when a family of five children moves from London to the English countryside. While playing in a gravel pit soon after the move, they discover an ancient and rather grumpy sand-fairy known as the Psammead, who agrees to grant one wish of theirs per day. The children's wishes send them on adventure after adventure, but rarely turn out as expected. (Summary by Kara) Genre(s): Children's Fiction, Action & Adventure Fiction, Fantastic Fiction Language: English (FULL Audiobook)
ANBStudios Presents In Loving Memory Of Assyria Literature Late Rabi Issa Benyamin 1924-2014
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What Are the Great Books of Western Literature? Homer, Locke, Nietzsche. Conrad, Woolf (1996)
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- Duration: 57:33
- Updated: 30 Jan 2014
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In the Western classical tradition, Homer (/ˈhoʊmər/; Ancient Greek: Ὅμηρος [hómɛːros], Hómēros) is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and is revered as t...
In the Western classical tradition, Homer (/ˈhoʊmər/; Ancient Greek: Ὅμηρος [hómɛːros], Hómēros) is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and is revered as the greatest of ancient Greek epic poets. These epics lie at the beginning of the Western canon of literature, and have had an enormous influence on the history of literature.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer
John Locke FRS (/ˈlɒk/; 29 August 1632 -- 28 October 1704), widely known as the Father of Classical Liberalism,[2][3][4] was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers. Considered one of the first of the British empiricists, following the tradition of Francis Bacon, he is equally important to social contract theory. His work greatly affected the development of epistemology and political philosophy. His writings influenced Voltaire and Rousseau, many Scottish Enlightenment thinkers, as well as the American revolutionaries. His contributions to classical republicanism and liberal theory are reflected in the United States Declaration of Independence.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Locke
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 -- 25 August 1900) was a German philologist, philosopher, cultural critic, poet and composer. He wrote several critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy and science, displaying a fondness for metaphor, irony and aphorism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nietzsche
Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski;:11--12 Berdichev, Imperial Russia, 3 December 1857 -- 3 August 1924, Bishopsbourne, Kent, England) was a Polish author who wrote in English after settling in England. He was granted British nationality in 1886, but always considered himself a Pole. Conrad is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English, though he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties (and always with a marked accent). He wrote stories and novels, often with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an indifferent universe. He was a master prose stylist who brought a distinctly non-English tragic sensibility into English literature.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_conrad
Adeline Virginia Woolf (/ˈwʊlf/; 25 January 1882 -- 28 March 1941) was an English writer, and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century.
During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a central figure in the influential Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929), with its famous dictum, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_woolf
wn.com/What Are The Great Books Of Western Literature Homer, Locke, Nietzsche. Conrad, Woolf (1996)
In the Western classical tradition, Homer (/ˈhoʊmər/; Ancient Greek: Ὅμηρος [hómɛːros], Hómēros) is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and is revered as the greatest of ancient Greek epic poets. These epics lie at the beginning of the Western canon of literature, and have had an enormous influence on the history of literature.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer
John Locke FRS (/ˈlɒk/; 29 August 1632 -- 28 October 1704), widely known as the Father of Classical Liberalism,[2][3][4] was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers. Considered one of the first of the British empiricists, following the tradition of Francis Bacon, he is equally important to social contract theory. His work greatly affected the development of epistemology and political philosophy. His writings influenced Voltaire and Rousseau, many Scottish Enlightenment thinkers, as well as the American revolutionaries. His contributions to classical republicanism and liberal theory are reflected in the United States Declaration of Independence.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Locke
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 -- 25 August 1900) was a German philologist, philosopher, cultural critic, poet and composer. He wrote several critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy and science, displaying a fondness for metaphor, irony and aphorism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nietzsche
Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski;:11--12 Berdichev, Imperial Russia, 3 December 1857 -- 3 August 1924, Bishopsbourne, Kent, England) was a Polish author who wrote in English after settling in England. He was granted British nationality in 1886, but always considered himself a Pole. Conrad is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English, though he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties (and always with a marked accent). He wrote stories and novels, often with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an indifferent universe. He was a master prose stylist who brought a distinctly non-English tragic sensibility into English literature.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_conrad
Adeline Virginia Woolf (/ˈwʊlf/; 25 January 1882 -- 28 March 1941) was an English writer, and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century.
During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a central figure in the influential Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929), with its famous dictum, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_woolf
- published: 30 Jan 2014
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English Literary HistoryPeriods
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- Updated: 27 Feb 2016
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Literary History Timeline
* Historical or non-English / American item
? B.C. — A. D. 428: Celtic and Roman Britain
428 — 1100: Old English (Anglo-Saxon) Per...
Literary History Timeline
* Historical or non-English / American item
? B.C. — A. D. 428: Celtic and Roman Britain
428 — 1100: Old English (Anglo-Saxon) Period
c. 700 — Beowulf composed in present form
*1066 — Battle of Hastings (Norman Conquest)
*1215 — Signing of Magna Carta
*c. 1307 — 1321 — Dante's Divina Commedia
1350 — 1500: Middle English Period
c. 1387 — Chaucer, "Prologue" to Canterbury Tales
*1492 — Columbus lands in America
1500 — 1660: The Renaissance (in England; 1607 - 1780 is considered the "Colonial" period in America)
*1517 —Martin Luther posts his theses in Wittenberg, leading to Protestant Reformation
*1532 — Machiavelli, The Prince
1539 — English Bible (the "Great Bible") published
*1558 — 1603 — Reign of Queen Elizabeth I
1564 — 1616 — Life of William Shakespeare
1601 — Shakespeare's Hamlet
*1605 — Cervantes, Don Quixote, Part I
*1607 — Settlement at Jamestown, Virginia
1611 — King James translation of the Bible
*1620 — Pilgrims land at Plymouth
*1640 — Bay Psalm Book: first book printed in America
*1649 — Execution of Charles I
*1649 — 1660 — Commonwealth Period–England ruled by Parliament
1660 — 1798: Neoclassical Period (also known as "The Long 18th Century")
*1660 — Charles II restored to the throne ("The Restoration")
1667 — John Milton, Paradise Lost
*1687 — Sir Isaac Newton, Principia Mathematica
*1692 — Salem witchcraft executions
1719 — Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
1726 — Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels
1740 — Samuel Richardson, Pamela
1740-5 — The Great Awakening (religious revival)
1749 — Henry Fielding, Tom Jones
*1751 — Gray, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"
1755 - Ben Johnson, Dictionary
1760-67 — Lawrence Stern, Tristram Shandy
1765-1830 — Revolutionary and Early National Period
*1770 — Oliver Goldsmith, "The Deserted Village"
1771 — Ben Franklin, Autobiography
1775-1783 — Revolutionary War
1776 —Declaration of Independence
1783-85 — Noah Webster, Grammatical Institute of the English Language (speller, grammar, reader)
*1789 — French Revolution begins
1798-1832: Romantic Period
1798 — William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads
1811 — Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
1817 — Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
1819 — Lord Byron, Don Juan I and II
*1820 — The Missouri Compromise
1820 — Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
1830 — Edgar Allan Poe, Poems
1832-1870: Early Victorian Age (English Literature)
1836 — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature
1836 — Charles Dickens, Pickwick Papers
1837 — Nathaniel Hawthorne, Twice-Told Tales
1842 — Robert Browning, Dramatic Lyrics; Lord Tennyson, Poems
1845 — Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
1847 — Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights; Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
1847-8 — Thackeray, Vanity Fair
1849 — Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
1850 — Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese
1850 — Nathaniel Hawthorne, Scarlet Letter
1851 — Herman Melville, Moby Dick
1852 — Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
1854 — Henry David Thoreau, Walden
1855 — Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
1859 — Charles Darwin, Origin of the Species
1860 — George Eliot, Mill on the Floss
*1860-5 — American Civil War
1865-1914: Realistic Period (American Literature)
1867 — Karl Marx, Das Kapital
1868 — Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
1872 — George Eliot, Middlemarch
1874 — Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
1876 — Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer
1879 — Henry James, Daisy Miller; * Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House
1883 — Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
1884 — Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn
1891 — Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
1893 — George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren’s Profession
1895 — Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest; Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage
1900-1930: Naturalistic and Symbolistic Period (American Only)
1900 — Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie
1901-1910: Edwardian Period
1903 — Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness; Jack London, The Call of the Wild
1905 — Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth
1907 — John Millington Synge, Playboy of the Western World
1913 — D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers; Willa Cather, O Pioneers!
1914-1918: First World War
1917 — T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
1921- Aldous Huxley, Chrome Yellow
1922 - James Joyce, Ulysses; T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land
1924 - E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
wn.com/English Literary Historyperiods
Literary History Timeline
* Historical or non-English / American item
? B.C. — A. D. 428: Celtic and Roman Britain
428 — 1100: Old English (Anglo-Saxon) Period
c. 700 — Beowulf composed in present form
*1066 — Battle of Hastings (Norman Conquest)
*1215 — Signing of Magna Carta
*c. 1307 — 1321 — Dante's Divina Commedia
1350 — 1500: Middle English Period
c. 1387 — Chaucer, "Prologue" to Canterbury Tales
*1492 — Columbus lands in America
1500 — 1660: The Renaissance (in England; 1607 - 1780 is considered the "Colonial" period in America)
*1517 —Martin Luther posts his theses in Wittenberg, leading to Protestant Reformation
*1532 — Machiavelli, The Prince
1539 — English Bible (the "Great Bible") published
*1558 — 1603 — Reign of Queen Elizabeth I
1564 — 1616 — Life of William Shakespeare
1601 — Shakespeare's Hamlet
*1605 — Cervantes, Don Quixote, Part I
*1607 — Settlement at Jamestown, Virginia
1611 — King James translation of the Bible
*1620 — Pilgrims land at Plymouth
*1640 — Bay Psalm Book: first book printed in America
*1649 — Execution of Charles I
*1649 — 1660 — Commonwealth Period–England ruled by Parliament
1660 — 1798: Neoclassical Period (also known as "The Long 18th Century")
*1660 — Charles II restored to the throne ("The Restoration")
1667 — John Milton, Paradise Lost
*1687 — Sir Isaac Newton, Principia Mathematica
*1692 — Salem witchcraft executions
1719 — Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
1726 — Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels
1740 — Samuel Richardson, Pamela
1740-5 — The Great Awakening (religious revival)
1749 — Henry Fielding, Tom Jones
*1751 — Gray, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"
1755 - Ben Johnson, Dictionary
1760-67 — Lawrence Stern, Tristram Shandy
1765-1830 — Revolutionary and Early National Period
*1770 — Oliver Goldsmith, "The Deserted Village"
1771 — Ben Franklin, Autobiography
1775-1783 — Revolutionary War
1776 —Declaration of Independence
1783-85 — Noah Webster, Grammatical Institute of the English Language (speller, grammar, reader)
*1789 — French Revolution begins
1798-1832: Romantic Period
1798 — William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads
1811 — Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
1817 — Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
1819 — Lord Byron, Don Juan I and II
*1820 — The Missouri Compromise
1820 — Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
1830 — Edgar Allan Poe, Poems
1832-1870: Early Victorian Age (English Literature)
1836 — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature
1836 — Charles Dickens, Pickwick Papers
1837 — Nathaniel Hawthorne, Twice-Told Tales
1842 — Robert Browning, Dramatic Lyrics; Lord Tennyson, Poems
1845 — Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
1847 — Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights; Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
1847-8 — Thackeray, Vanity Fair
1849 — Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
1850 — Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese
1850 — Nathaniel Hawthorne, Scarlet Letter
1851 — Herman Melville, Moby Dick
1852 — Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
1854 — Henry David Thoreau, Walden
1855 — Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
1859 — Charles Darwin, Origin of the Species
1860 — George Eliot, Mill on the Floss
*1860-5 — American Civil War
1865-1914: Realistic Period (American Literature)
1867 — Karl Marx, Das Kapital
1868 — Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
1872 — George Eliot, Middlemarch
1874 — Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
1876 — Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer
1879 — Henry James, Daisy Miller; * Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House
1883 — Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
1884 — Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn
1891 — Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
1893 — George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren’s Profession
1895 — Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest; Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage
1900-1930: Naturalistic and Symbolistic Period (American Only)
1900 — Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie
1901-1910: Edwardian Period
1903 — Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness; Jack London, The Call of the Wild
1905 — Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth
1907 — John Millington Synge, Playboy of the Western World
1913 — D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers; Willa Cather, O Pioneers!
1914-1918: First World War
1917 — T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
1921- Aldous Huxley, Chrome Yellow
1922 - James Joyce, Ulysses; T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land
1924 - E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
- published: 27 Feb 2016
- views: 545
Why Classic American Literature Remains Indispensable: Writers (1997)
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- Duration: 62:03
- Updated: 06 Oct 2014
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Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, writer of short stories, and poet from the American Renaissance period. The bulk...
Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, writer of short stories, and poet from the American Renaissance period. The bulk of his writings was published between 1846 and 1857. Best known for his whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851), he is also legendary for having been forgotten during the last thirty years of his life. Melville's writing is characteristic for its allusivity. "In Melville's manipulation of his reading," scholar Stanley T. Williams wrote, "was a transforming power comparable to Shakespeare's."[1]
Born in New York City, he was the third child of a merchant in French dry-goods, with Revolutionary War heroes for grandfathers. Not long after the death of his father in 1832, his schooling stopped abruptly. After having been a schoolteacher for a short time, he signed up for a merchant voyage to Liverpool in 1839. A year and a half into his first whaling voyage, in 1842 he jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands, where he lived among the natives for a month. His first book, Typee (1846) became a huge bestseller which called for a sequel, Omoo (1847). The same year Melville married Elizabeth Knapp Shaw; their four children were all born between 1849 and 1855.
In August 1850, having moved to Pittsfield, he established a profound friendship with Nathaniel Hawthorne, though the relationship lost intensity after the latter moved away. Moby-Dick (1851) did not become a success, and Pierre (1852) put an end to his career as a popular author. From 1853 to 1856 he wrote short fiction for magazines, collected as The Piazza Tales (1856). In 1857, while Melville was on a voyage to England and the Near East, The Confidence-Man appeared, the last prose work published during his lifetime. From then on Melville turned to poetry. Having secured a position of Customs Inspector in New York, his poetic reflection on the Civil War appeared as Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866).
In 1867 his oldest child Malcolm died at home from a self-inflicted gunshot. For the epic Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876) he drew upon his experience in Egypt and Palestine from twenty years earlier. In 1886 he retired as Customs Inspector and privately published some volumes of poetry in small editions. During the last years of his life, interest in him was reviving and he was approached to have his biography written, but his death in 1891 from cardiovascular disease subdued the revival before it could gain momentum. Inspired perhaps by the growing interest in him, in his final years he had been working on a prose story one more time and left the manuscript of Billy Budd, Sailor, which was published in 1924.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Melville
Henry David Thoreau (see name pronunciation; July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American author, poet, philosopher, polymath, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist.[2] He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Resistance to Civil Government (also known as Civil Disobedience), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.
Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions are his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern-day environmentalism. His literary style interweaves close natural observation, personal experience, pointed rhetoric, symbolic meanings, and historical lore, while displaying a poetic sensibility, philosophical austerity, and "Yankee" love of practical detail.[3] He was also deeply interested in the idea of survival in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay; at the same time he advocated abandoning waste and illusion in order to discover life's true essential needs.[3]
He was a lifelong abolitionist, delivering lectures that attacked the Fugitive Slave Law while praising the writings of Wendell Phillips and defending abolitionist John Brown. Thoreau's philosophy of civil disobedience later influenced the political thoughts and actions of such notable figures as Leo Tolstoy, Mohandas Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau
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Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, writer of short stories, and poet from the American Renaissance period. The bulk of his writings was published between 1846 and 1857. Best known for his whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851), he is also legendary for having been forgotten during the last thirty years of his life. Melville's writing is characteristic for its allusivity. "In Melville's manipulation of his reading," scholar Stanley T. Williams wrote, "was a transforming power comparable to Shakespeare's."[1]
Born in New York City, he was the third child of a merchant in French dry-goods, with Revolutionary War heroes for grandfathers. Not long after the death of his father in 1832, his schooling stopped abruptly. After having been a schoolteacher for a short time, he signed up for a merchant voyage to Liverpool in 1839. A year and a half into his first whaling voyage, in 1842 he jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands, where he lived among the natives for a month. His first book, Typee (1846) became a huge bestseller which called for a sequel, Omoo (1847). The same year Melville married Elizabeth Knapp Shaw; their four children were all born between 1849 and 1855.
In August 1850, having moved to Pittsfield, he established a profound friendship with Nathaniel Hawthorne, though the relationship lost intensity after the latter moved away. Moby-Dick (1851) did not become a success, and Pierre (1852) put an end to his career as a popular author. From 1853 to 1856 he wrote short fiction for magazines, collected as The Piazza Tales (1856). In 1857, while Melville was on a voyage to England and the Near East, The Confidence-Man appeared, the last prose work published during his lifetime. From then on Melville turned to poetry. Having secured a position of Customs Inspector in New York, his poetic reflection on the Civil War appeared as Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866).
In 1867 his oldest child Malcolm died at home from a self-inflicted gunshot. For the epic Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876) he drew upon his experience in Egypt and Palestine from twenty years earlier. In 1886 he retired as Customs Inspector and privately published some volumes of poetry in small editions. During the last years of his life, interest in him was reviving and he was approached to have his biography written, but his death in 1891 from cardiovascular disease subdued the revival before it could gain momentum. Inspired perhaps by the growing interest in him, in his final years he had been working on a prose story one more time and left the manuscript of Billy Budd, Sailor, which was published in 1924.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Melville
Henry David Thoreau (see name pronunciation; July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American author, poet, philosopher, polymath, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist.[2] He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Resistance to Civil Government (also known as Civil Disobedience), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.
Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions are his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern-day environmentalism. His literary style interweaves close natural observation, personal experience, pointed rhetoric, symbolic meanings, and historical lore, while displaying a poetic sensibility, philosophical austerity, and "Yankee" love of practical detail.[3] He was also deeply interested in the idea of survival in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay; at the same time he advocated abandoning waste and illusion in order to discover life's true essential needs.[3]
He was a lifelong abolitionist, delivering lectures that attacked the Fugitive Slave Law while praising the writings of Wendell Phillips and defending abolitionist John Brown. Thoreau's philosophy of civil disobedience later influenced the political thoughts and actions of such notable figures as Leo Tolstoy, Mohandas Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau
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1924: The Year That Made Hitler - A Discussion with Peter Ross Range
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In this AICGS interview, journalist and writer Peter Ross Range sits down with AICGS President Dr. Jackson Janes to discuss his new book 1924: The Year That Mad...
In this AICGS interview, journalist and writer Peter Ross Range sits down with AICGS President Dr. Jackson Janes to discuss his new book 1924: The Year That Made Hitler. Diving into his pursuit to fill a literature gap in the year that witnessed Adolf Hitler's final transformation into the self-proclaimed savior and infallible leader, Mr. Range shares his insight on continuing efforts to address the Nazi past in Germany and comments on some parallels of Hitler's political strategies in present-day political figures.
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In this AICGS interview, journalist and writer Peter Ross Range sits down with AICGS President Dr. Jackson Janes to discuss his new book 1924: The Year That Made Hitler. Diving into his pursuit to fill a literature gap in the year that witnessed Adolf Hitler's final transformation into the self-proclaimed savior and infallible leader, Mr. Range shares his insight on continuing efforts to address the Nazi past in Germany and comments on some parallels of Hitler's political strategies in present-day political figures.
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The Harlem Renaissance: The Rise of African American Literature, Art, and Music
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This short film, produced and created by Rob Johnson of San Rafael, CA, is an introduction to an interdisciplinary unit on the Music, Art, and Literature of th...
This short film, produced and created by Rob Johnson of San Rafael, CA, is an introduction to an interdisciplinary unit on the Music, Art, and Literature of the Harlem Renaissance. The Harlem Renaissance (also known as the Black Literary Renaissance and the New Negro Movement) refers to the flowering of African American cultural and intellectual life during the 1920s and 1930s. At the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement", named after the 1925 anthology The New Negro edited by Alain Locke. Centered in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, the movement impacted urban centers throughout the United States. Across the cultural spectrum (literature, drama, music, visual art, dance) and also in the realm of social thought (sociology, historiography, philosophy), artists and intellectuals found new ways to explore the historical experiences of black America and the contemporary experiences of black life in the urban North. Challenging white paternalism and racism, African-American artists and intellectuals rejected imitating the styles of Europeans and white Americans and instead celebrated black dignity and creativity. Asserting their freedom to express themselves on their own terms, they explored their identities as black Americans, celebrating the black culture that had emerged out of slavery, as well as cultural ties to Africa. The Harlem Renaissance had a profound impact not only on African-American culture but also on the cultures of the African diaspora. Afro-Caribbean artists and intellectuals from the British West Indies, who had migrated to New York in number, were part of the movement. Moreover, many French-speaking black writers from African and Caribbean colonies who lived in Paris were also influenced by the Harlem Renaissance.[1] Historians disagree as to when the Harlem Renaissance began and ended. It is unofficially recognized to have spanned from about 1919 until the early or mid 1930s. Many of its ideas lived on much longer. The zenith of this "flowering of Negro literature", as James Weldon Johnson preferred to call the Harlem Renaissance, is placed between 1924 (the year that Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life hosted a party for black writers where many white publishers were in attendance) and 1929 (the year of the stock market crash and the beginning of the Great Depression). In 1917 Hubert Harrison, "The Father of Harlem Radicalism," founded the Liberty League and The Voice, the first organization and the first newspaper of the "New Negro Movement". Harrison's organization and newspaper were political, but also emphasized the arts (his newspaper had "Poetry for the People" and book review sections). In 1927, in the Pittsburgh Courier, Harrison challenged the notion of the renaissance. He argued that the "Negro Literary Renaissance" notion overlooked "the stream of literary and artistic products which had flowed uninterruptedly from Negro writers from 1850 to the present", and said the so-called "renaissance" was largely a white invention. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem_Renaissance)
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This short film, produced and created by Rob Johnson of San Rafael, CA, is an introduction to an interdisciplinary unit on the Music, Art, and Literature of the Harlem Renaissance. The Harlem Renaissance (also known as the Black Literary Renaissance and the New Negro Movement) refers to the flowering of African American cultural and intellectual life during the 1920s and 1930s. At the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement", named after the 1925 anthology The New Negro edited by Alain Locke. Centered in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, the movement impacted urban centers throughout the United States. Across the cultural spectrum (literature, drama, music, visual art, dance) and also in the realm of social thought (sociology, historiography, philosophy), artists and intellectuals found new ways to explore the historical experiences of black America and the contemporary experiences of black life in the urban North. Challenging white paternalism and racism, African-American artists and intellectuals rejected imitating the styles of Europeans and white Americans and instead celebrated black dignity and creativity. Asserting their freedom to express themselves on their own terms, they explored their identities as black Americans, celebrating the black culture that had emerged out of slavery, as well as cultural ties to Africa. The Harlem Renaissance had a profound impact not only on African-American culture but also on the cultures of the African diaspora. Afro-Caribbean artists and intellectuals from the British West Indies, who had migrated to New York in number, were part of the movement. Moreover, many French-speaking black writers from African and Caribbean colonies who lived in Paris were also influenced by the Harlem Renaissance.[1] Historians disagree as to when the Harlem Renaissance began and ended. It is unofficially recognized to have spanned from about 1919 until the early or mid 1930s. Many of its ideas lived on much longer. The zenith of this "flowering of Negro literature", as James Weldon Johnson preferred to call the Harlem Renaissance, is placed between 1924 (the year that Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life hosted a party for black writers where many white publishers were in attendance) and 1929 (the year of the stock market crash and the beginning of the Great Depression). In 1917 Hubert Harrison, "The Father of Harlem Radicalism," founded the Liberty League and The Voice, the first organization and the first newspaper of the "New Negro Movement". Harrison's organization and newspaper were political, but also emphasized the arts (his newspaper had "Poetry for the People" and book review sections). In 1927, in the Pittsburgh Courier, Harrison challenged the notion of the renaissance. He argued that the "Negro Literary Renaissance" notion overlooked "the stream of literary and artistic products which had flowed uninterruptedly from Negro writers from 1850 to the present", and said the so-called "renaissance" was largely a white invention. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem_Renaissance)
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Awr Dywyll - John Jones - literature reading
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‘Awr Dywyll’ (1924)
John Jones
Appeared in a slim volume of poetry published in 1924 entitled O Lwch y Lolfa :Cyfrol o Ganu gan Chwech of Lowyr Sir Gar. We hav...
‘Awr Dywyll’ (1924)
John Jones
Appeared in a slim volume of poetry published in 1924 entitled O Lwch y Lolfa :Cyfrol o Ganu gan Chwech of Lowyr Sir Gar. We have been unable to locate the copyright holder and would be pleased to hear from anyone who may be able to help.
Read by Heledd Gwynne
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Yn nyfnder nos, a’r byd mewn tawel hûn
Gadawodd tyrfa ddu dynelau mwll;
’Roedd chwys ar ael pob gwr – ag eithro un,
Ac nid oedd rhêg i’w chlywed gylch y pwll.
Y ddoe bu’n dadleu’n ddiflin hawliau’r rhai
Sydd heno’n cludo’i gorff i’w gartre’n fud,
Gan gamu’n wylaidd; a phwy all’sai lai
Na gweld rhigolau garw’r chwysu drud.
Cadd ddannod droeon “oriau gweithio bach”
A “chyflog dda” gan rai na wyddant fawr
Am ddim ond chawarae i fyw mewn awyr iach,
Ac yntau’n torri ’i ffordd mewn nos ddi-wawr.
Yn fud bydd fory’r gainc mewn bwthyn clyd,
A thradwy angladd wrth addoldy’r glyn;
Na feier un na wêl o druan fyd
Drwy’r dyrfa ddu, y dorf mewn “gynau gwyn.”
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‘Awr Dywyll’ (1924)
John Jones
Appeared in a slim volume of poetry published in 1924 entitled O Lwch y Lolfa :Cyfrol o Ganu gan Chwech of Lowyr Sir Gar. We have been unable to locate the copyright holder and would be pleased to hear from anyone who may be able to help.
Read by Heledd Gwynne
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Yn nyfnder nos, a’r byd mewn tawel hûn
Gadawodd tyrfa ddu dynelau mwll;
’Roedd chwys ar ael pob gwr – ag eithro un,
Ac nid oedd rhêg i’w chlywed gylch y pwll.
Y ddoe bu’n dadleu’n ddiflin hawliau’r rhai
Sydd heno’n cludo’i gorff i’w gartre’n fud,
Gan gamu’n wylaidd; a phwy all’sai lai
Na gweld rhigolau garw’r chwysu drud.
Cadd ddannod droeon “oriau gweithio bach”
A “chyflog dda” gan rai na wyddant fawr
Am ddim ond chawarae i fyw mewn awyr iach,
Ac yntau’n torri ’i ffordd mewn nos ddi-wawr.
Yn fud bydd fory’r gainc mewn bwthyn clyd,
A thradwy angladd wrth addoldy’r glyn;
Na feier un na wêl o druan fyd
Drwy’r dyrfa ddu, y dorf mewn “gynau gwyn.”
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ME AND THE BOY FRIEND by Jane Green 1924
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ME AND THE BOY FRIEND by Jane Green 1924
ME AND THE BOY FRIEND by Jane Green 1924
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Literature Help 13: "A Passage to India" Plot Summary
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The book "A Passage to India" by E. M. Forster is based on the subject of the relationship between the East and West. The story is set against the backdrop of t...
The book "A Passage to India" by E. M. Forster is based on the subject of the relationship between the East and West. The story is set against the backdrop of the British Raj in India and it moves along the Independence movement in India in the 1920s.
"A Passage to India" was considered as one of the 100 great works of English Literature by the Modern Library.
The book won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction in the year 1924.
It was also included in the list of TIME Best English language Novels from 1923 to 2005.
It is highly descriptive novel based on Forster's experiences in India.
The title of the book was borrowed from the poem "Leaves of Grass" written by Walt Whitman.
wn.com/Literature Help 13 A Passage To India Plot Summary
The book "A Passage to India" by E. M. Forster is based on the subject of the relationship between the East and West. The story is set against the backdrop of the British Raj in India and it moves along the Independence movement in India in the 1920s.
"A Passage to India" was considered as one of the 100 great works of English Literature by the Modern Library.
The book won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction in the year 1924.
It was also included in the list of TIME Best English language Novels from 1923 to 2005.
It is highly descriptive novel based on Forster's experiences in India.
The title of the book was borrowed from the poem "Leaves of Grass" written by Walt Whitman.
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Five Children and It (FULL Audiobook)
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Five Children and It audiobook
E. (Edith) NESBIT (1858 - 1924)
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This delightful...
Five Children and It audiobook
E. (Edith) NESBIT (1858 - 1924)
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This delightful novel begins when a family of five children moves from London to the English countryside. While playing in a gravel pit soon after the move, they discover an ancient and rather grumpy sand-fairy known as the Psammead, who agrees to grant one wish of theirs per day. The children's wishes send them on adventure after adventure, but rarely turn out as expected. (Summary by Kara)
Genre(s): Children's Fiction, Action & Adventure Fiction, Fantastic Fiction
Language: English (FULL Audiobook)
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Five Children and It audiobook
E. (Edith) NESBIT (1858 - 1924)
http://free-audio-books.info/childrens-literature/five-children-and-it-audiobook/
This delightful novel begins when a family of five children moves from London to the English countryside. While playing in a gravel pit soon after the move, they discover an ancient and rather grumpy sand-fairy known as the Psammead, who agrees to grant one wish of theirs per day. The children's wishes send them on adventure after adventure, but rarely turn out as expected. (Summary by Kara)
Genre(s): Children's Fiction, Action & Adventure Fiction, Fantastic Fiction
Language: English (FULL Audiobook)
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ANBStudios Presents In Loving Memory Of Assyria Literature Late Rabi Issa Benyamin 1924-2014
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What Are the Great Books of Western Literature? Homer, Locke, Nietzsche. Conrad, Woolf (1996)
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Why Classic American Literature Remains Indispensable: Writers (1997)
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1924: The Year That Made Hitler - A Discussion with Peter Ross Range
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Awr Dywyll - John Jones - literature reading
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ME AND THE BOY FRIEND by Jane Green 1924
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Melania Trump’s Nude Picture Released – Is This How Potential First Lady Will Be?
Edit Inquisitr 31 Jul 2016
Like her husband, Melania’s career has come a long way, and very few people know that there was a time when she posed just in her heels for a photo shoot. According to New York Post, before marrying Donald Trump, Melania posed nude in a photo spread for a French men’s magazine. During the photo shoot, she was just 25-year-old and according to Ale de Basseville, she did the steamy photo session in Manhattan in 1995....
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Donald Trump rebuts criticism by slain Muslim-American soldier's father at Democratic convention
Edit DNA India 31 Jul 2016
Khizr Khan won widespread praise when he spoke at the Democratic National Convention (DNC), telling the story of his son, US Army Captain Humayun Khan, killed by a bomb in Iraq in 2004 ... "I think I';ve made a lot of sacrifices," Trump told ABC News in excerpts of an interview posted on Saturday ... "Did Hillary's script writers write it?" Trump asked ABC's George Stephanopoulos in the interview....
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Tokyo elects first female governor, Yuriko Koike, to lead city into Olympics
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Yuriko Koike was announced the winner by Japanese media as soon as voting ended, based on her definitive lead in exit polls ... Koike, 64, had previously served as defense minister, Japan's first woman in that post. But she ran in the Tokyo election without the official backing of the ruling pro-U.S., pro-business Liberal Democratic Party ... The governor before him also resigned in disgrace....
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Hot air balloon carrying at least 16 people crashes in Texas
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LOCKHART, Texas (AP) — Federal officials say a hot air balloon carrying at least 16 people caught on fire and crashed in Central Texas, and it is unclear whether there are injuries or deaths. Lynn Lunsford with the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement that the accident happened about 8.40 a.m. Saturday near Lockhart, Texas, when the hot air balloon crashed into a pasture ... Lockhart is about 30 miles south of Austin ... ....
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Google doodle pays tribute to iconic Hindi writer Munshi Premchand
Edit Deccan Chronicle 31 Jul 2016
The doodle is inspired from Premchand's last and most popular novel, 'Godaan', which he penned in 1936 ... Born as Dhanpat Rai in a small village near Varanasi in 1880, the renowned author produced more than a dozen novels, 250 short stories, and a number of essays, many under the pen name Premchand ... According to the search engine, "It wasn't until later in life that Premchand really focused on his writing....
Google doodle pays tribute to Hindi writer Munshi Premchand
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The doodle is inspired from Premchand's last and most popular novel, 'Godaan', which he penned in 1936 ... Born as Dhanpat Rai in a small village near Varanasi in 1880, the renowned author produced more than a dozen novels, 250 short stories, and a number of essays, many under the pen name Premchand ... According to the search engine, "It wasn't until later in life that Premchand really focused on his writing....
Delay in indigenous carrier to impact Indian Navy's capabilities: CAG
Edit The Times of India 31 Jul 2016
New Delhi, July 31 (IANS) The delay in delivering an indigenous aircraft carrier (IAC) will adversely impact the Indian Navy, with one of its two carriers in the process of being decommissioned, the government auditor has pointed out ... The delay has also resulted in the cost escalating beyond the originally sanctioned Rs ... The shipyard says the carrier will be delivered in 2023, five years behind schedule....
Shakespeare behind bars: Indore jail sees freedom in knowledge
Edit The Times of India 31 Jul 2016
This is not an English literature class at an upscale Indore college, but a barricaded hall with armed guards keeping a close watch on dozens of rough-looking, burly men ... The prisoners were being taught English literature by a fellow inmate -- a former bank official, who expects to taste freedom in about a year ... "Inmates had enrolled themselves in many distance learning courses....
BMC seals Urdu Markaz's office
Edit DNA India 31 Jul 2016
The civic body had given a room to the NGO in the Imamwada Municipal Urdu School but had served three eviction notices over the last three years ... Uma Shinde, administration officer, (Education), B ward, said, "I inspected the property and found that no educational activities were going on in the premises ... I can guarantee that they are promoting the Urdu culture in the form of literature, art, music and education....
Soon, MU to offer PG degree in Konkani
Edit The Times of India 31 Jul 2016
After Goa University, Mangalore University will now become the second varsity to offer a masters programme in Konkani language and literature. Approved at the Mangalore University's first academic council meeting for the current academic year, the classes for the course will be conducted at the University Evening College in Hampankatta ... The Konkani Sahitya Academy also plans on introducing Konkani in PU colleges in the coming days....
Yankees trade Andrew Miller: Who are throw-ins Ben Heller, J.P. Feyereisen?
Edit NJ dot com 31 Jul 2016
The Yankees acquired two tops prospects and Heller and Feyereisen, two throw-ins ... Feyereisen, two throw-ins ... Heller, 24, is 3-2 with 12 saves in 13 chances and a 1.73 ERA (41.2IP, 23H, 8ER, 12BB, 48K, 2HR) in 43 relief appearances this season at Triple-A Columbus (28G) and Double-A Akron (15G), holding batters to a combined .159 batting average with a 0.84 WHIP....
Google Pays Tribute To Famous Indian Writer Premchand With A Doodle
Edit NDTV 31 Jul 2016
Today google paid tribute to greatest writer in Hindi literature Premchand, better known as Munshi Premchand. ....
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