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- Philip Larkin (1922-1985)
- Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
- Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
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Modernism – 1890’s – 1940’s Post-modernism – 1945- present H Auden (1907-1973) Auden was born in England but later became an American citizen. He is known as a poet, literary critic, essayist and worked on documentary, plays and other forms of performance. His work is very highly regarded. He employs a variety of tone, form and content and often engages with moral and political issues, with his main themes being love, politics, citizenship, religion and morals. He was Professor of Poetry at Oxford University. Lullaby from Another Time (1940) Lay your sleeping head, my love, Human on my faithless arm; Time and fevers burn away Individual beauty from Thoughtful children, and the grave Proves the child ephemeral: But in my arms till break of day Let the living creature lie, Mortal, guilty, but to me The entirely beautiful. Soul and body have no bounds: To lovers as they lie upon Her tolerant enchanted slope In their ordinary swoon, Grave the vision Venus sends Of supernatural sympathy, Universal love and hope; While an abstract insight wakes Among the glaciers and the rocks The hermit's carnal ecstasy. Beauty, midnight, vision dies: Let the winds of dawn that blow Softly round your dreaming head Such a day of welcome show Eye and knocking heart may bless, Find our mortal world enough; Noons of dryness find you fed By the involuntary powers, Nights of insult let you pass Watched by every human love. Certainty, fidelity On the stroke of midnight pass Like vibrations of a bell And fashionable madmen raise Their pedantic boring cry: Every farthing of the cost, All the dreaded cards foretell, Shall be paid, but from this night Not a whisper, not a thought, Not a kiss nor look be lost. 1953 - Elizabeth II is crowned Queen Modernism – 1890’s – 1940’s Post-modernism – 1945- present
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arkin is widely regarded as one of the best poets of the second half of the 20th Century. Although he is often painted as a pessimistic character, his love poetry contains poignant and affective imagery. Larkin was also a well known novelist and music critic, especially of jazz. He declined the offer of the Poet Laureate in 1984 and despite his success continued to work in Hull University Library for most of his life. Broadcast – from Whitsun Weddings (1964) Giant whispering and coughing from Vast Sunday-full and organ-frowned-on spaces Precede a sudden scuttle on the drum 'The Queen', and a huge resettling. Then begins A snivel on the violins: I think of your face among all those faces, Beautiful and devout before Cascades of monumental slithering, One of your gloves unnoticed on the floor Beside those new, slightly-outmoded shoes. Here it goes quickly dark. I lose All but the outline of the still and withering Leaves on half-emptied trees. Behind The glowing wavebands, rabid storms of chording By being distant overpower my mine All the more shamelessly, their cut-off shout Leaving me desperate to pick out Your hands, tiny in all that air, applauding. 1959 – 1975 - The Vietnam War Post-modernism – 1945- present Post- Colonialism – 1950’s - present Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) P 
lath, an American Poet who lived in England, is a well regarded poet and novelist. She was married to poet Ted Hughes and after a long battle with depression, committed suicide in 1963. She is known for advancing the genre of confessional poetry, writing pieces that are highly emotive and personal. Child from Ariel (1965) Your clear eye is the one absolutely beautiful thing. I want to fill it with color and ducks, The zoo of the new
April snowdrop, Indian pipe, Little
Pool in which images Should be grand and classical
Wringing of hands, this dark Ceiling without a star.
Post-modernism – 1945- present Post-colonialism – 1950’s - present
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toppard is arguably one of the best and highly regarded playwrights of his generation. He is known for his intellectual and insightful plays which offer a social commentary on life as we know it. Stoppard is perhaps best known for his play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, imagining scenes from Hamlet that Shakespeare didn’t write. Many of Stoppard’s plays look at morals or the lack there of and question social presumption. The Real Thing (first performed 1982)- Scene 6 - Henry explains Love and the loss of it. Directory: english -> wp-content english -> Protecting the rights of the child in the context of migration english -> United Nations E/C. 12/Esp/5 english -> Form a-122 File No. Retirement homes act, 2010 application under section 116 of the act english -> The Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine english -> 1. 2 Extraction of exposure and others parameters english -> 【Education&Working Experience】 english -> Tourist Areas Haiti, another discovery english -> Active Vocabulary wp-content -> Matthew Cooperman Download 3.7 Mb. Share with your friends:
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