AP English IV Test

Joseph Conrad
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Joseph Conrad
Did not learn to speak or read English til 21
Wrote about the sea
Interested in how man's life can be wrecked or sustained by his dreams
Interested in psychological makeup of man
Man's dream of himself either joins him to his fellowman or cuts him off from man
Heart of darkness/secret sharer
Lord Jim
Nostromo
Il Conde
The Lagoon
A. E. Housman
Small output; major impact on 20th century poetry
Emotional intensity conveyed simply
A Shropshire Lad
When I was One- and- Twenty
To an Athlete Dying Young
With Rue my Heart is Laden
Into my Heart an Air that Kills
Tell me not here, it needs not saying
William Butler Yeats
Forced British poetry to deal with the moral problems of the 20th century
Irishman; influenced by Irish myths of folktales
Mystical in his writing
Major 20th century poet
When You Are Old
The Wild Swans at Coole
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
Sailing to Byzantium
The Second Coming
Leda and the Swan
E.M. Forster
Complex moral awareness
Hated English hypocrisy and convention
A Passage to India
Notes on the English Character
Howard's End
Katherine Mansfield
Wrote short stories only
Dealt with small gestures and tiny fragments of life
"I want to catch the significance of the fleeting moment
A Cup of Tea
The English Chekov
Virginia Woolf
Stream of Consciousness
Little interest in plot
Suicide
Mrs. Dalloway
To the Lighthouse
James Joyce
Irish; always wrote of Dublin
Innovative; stream of consciousness; constructed new language (in a sense)
Autobiographical
Uses many allusions in longer works
"Araby" from book of short stories, DUBLINERS
One of the most difficult 20th Century writers
Ulysses
Finnegans Wake
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Araby
D.H. Lawrence
Working class ancestry
Unconventional lifestyle
Dislike of British puritanism
Sensuous view of man and nature
Women in Love
Sons and Lovers
Lady Chatterley's Lover
T.S. Eliot
Considered both American and British
Most influential poet of 20th century
Important as a poet, critic, playwright; strong influence on other writers
The Waste Land
Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Murder in the Cathedral
Preludes
The Hollow Men
George Orwell
Against totalitarianism
Animal Farm
Unhappy Life
1984 (obviously)
Frank O' ConnorIrish Known for short stories Many autobiographical The Wild Bird's Nest Bones of ContentionSean O' FaolainIrish Like O'Connor, craftsmen of short story Short story collections Midsummer Night Madness A Purse of CoppersDylan ThomasWelsh poet Famous for resonant reading of his poems Difficult imagery 18 Poems (an actual work) Collected LettersEvelyn WaughBritish satirist Catholic convert Brideshead Revisited The Loved One (duh)Graham GreeneCatholic convert Psychological novelist The Power and the Glory The Heart of the Matter20th Centuryread pgs 657-65 sorry i do not have a good summary for itOld English465-1066 Beowulf- anon No unified gov many invasions of England no common languageMiddle English1066-1515 Canterbury Tales- Chaucer First Universities feudal system church more important than state magna carta printing press crusadesRenaissance1515-1660 Merchant of Venice- Shakespeare "rebirth" of learning age of exploration Church of England more centered around man than GodThe Enlightenment1660-1899 Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen satire popular first newspapers and magazines development of the novelThe Romantic Age1800-1832 Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte favored the long ago and far away exotic locations the Gothic novelVictorian Age1832-1900 David Copperfield- Charles Dickens industrial age British Commonwealth at its height drastic social divisionsModern Age1900-present Lord of the Rings- Tolkien; The Loved One- Waugh; 1984- Orwell; Lord of the Flies- Golding Age of anxiety two world wars atomic weapons social upheaval