Choose Some Readings
We are moving on now in the Gymnasium Modersmål course to writing, but that always of course includes reading. Here is a list of just a very few of the major authors and poets from the four eras of modern literature we discussed in the first three lectures. Feel free to browse through the list and choose any one you find interesting. We can do more work on them in the second half of this term.
(Blake was the artist, writer and poet that ushered in romanticism)
(a long biography and then some of his poetry)
(a long biography and then some of his writing)
(Not a Romantic writer, but a phenomenon that cannot be ignored. Austen is enigma that is actually difficult to place in literary history as she invented a genre and her work remains very popular today).
(Burton was a writer but he is more known today as an archetypal character of the Victorian Era. Therefore I include him here as an insight into the time)
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (a late Romantic poet really but very much a Victorian)
(Within Eliot's impressive collection of works pay particular attention to The Waste Land)
(A transitional author, who's work made the cross over from Victorian to Modern)
(A bridge between Modernism and Post-modernism - too many great works to mention one)
(His short novel Heart of Darkness is a game changer for culture, history and literature)
(Many poems but the big one is The Second Coming, which has become part of the collective consciousness of the modern English speaking world)
(an important author for the upcoming - at the time - African American perspective on literature. Her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God is a masterpiece)
(Try reading Briefing for a Descent into Hell and tell me how you feel afterwards - astounding book)
Margaret Atwood (if you have not read her books, go there. You must).
Toni Morrison (Her novel Beloved is particularly important)
This list has barely scratched the surface of the literature that is available to you as an English speaker.
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