509 Aquanitances
(1) W. H Auden
W.H Auden was a British - American poet born in England but was
a lecturer in American Universities. Auden’s poetry was noted for its style and
Technicalities. Themes of his poetry are mostly politics, love, morality and
religion.
Notable works
(1) Funeral Blues
(2) September 1,1939
(3) The shield of
Achilles
(4) Age of Anxiety
(5) For the time being
During his early adulthood he travelled to Iceland and China to
write books about his journeys. He came to be known as poet when he published
the collection of 3 poems called ‘Poems’. Auden won Pulitzer Prize for poetry
for his long narration poem ‘The age of Anxiety’ he has also written some
essays reviews on literary, political, psychological and religious subjects.
Auden also worked in various documentary, films and poetic plays.
(2) E. M Foster
Edward Morgan Forster famously known as E.M Forster he was an
English novelist, poet and author best known for his novels. Foster also
written some short stories, essays, speeches and broadcast as well as very few
biographies. Today Forster is considered as one of the most successful English
novelist ‘Edwardian Era’ in England.
Notable works
(1) A room with a view
(2) Howard's End
(3) Passage to India
(4) The machine stops
Forster also Co-authored the Opera ‘Billy Budd’ in 1951. He
completed his graduation from Cambridge University and then travelled through
Europe before publishing his first novel ‘’Where Angels fear to tread’’. Many
of Foster’s novels examine class difference and hypocrisy. Foster was nominated
for the Nobel Prize in Literature for 20 long years.
(3) Ezra Pound
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound mostly known as Ezra Pound was an
American poet and critic, he was the major literary figure in English modernist
poetry movement.
Notable works
(1) Hugh Selwyn
Maubereley
(2) The Cantos
(3) Rispotes
(4) Cathway
(5) In Station of
Metro
Pound’s contribution to poetry begin in early 20th century he
developed poetic movement called Imagism. Having American origin but helped
many British poets like TS Eliot and Ernest Hemingway.
With T.S Eliot, Ezra Pound popularized Poetic Plays which was a
new genre during early 20th century.
(4) H. G Wells
Herbert George wells was an English poet and writer as prolific
in many genres he wrote more than 50 novels and dozens of short stories. Well’s
Non-fictions output include works of social commentary, politics, history,
science, satire, biography and autobiography.
Notable works
(1) The outline of the
History
(2) The Red Room
(3) The time Machine
(4) The Invisible Man
Wells is best known and remembered for his science fiction novels
and he is called as the ‘Father of science fiction’, as a writer he was a prominent
in criticism of society. Well’s science fiction contains the theme of time
travel, alien invasion, invisibility etc in today’s world he is inspiration for
many science fiction writers.
(5) Virginia Woolf
Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English writer novelist considered
as one of the most important modernist 20 century authors and pioneer of Stream
of Consciousness.
Notable works
(1) Mrs. Dollway
(2) To the Lighthouse
(3) A room of one's
own
(4) Orlando
(5) The waves
During her childhood she was homeschooled in classical English
and Victorian literature, she Graduated in King's college and came in contact
with early reformers of women higher education and women's rights movement.
Woolf was part of ‘’Bloomsbury Group’’- A group of intellectuals, English
writers, philosophers and artists of 20th century.
(6) D. H Lawrence
David Herbert Lawrence was an English writer, novelist, poet and
essayist mostly famous for his novels. Lawrence’s work presented the themes of
modern industrialization, sexuality, humans emotions etc.
Notable works
(1) Sons and Lovers
(2) The Rainbow
(3) Women in Love
(4) Lady Chatteeley's
Lover
Because of his artistic reviews many critics became his Enemies,
his works are misunderstand and so he spend his most of time in exile, 4 years
which he described the ‘Savage enough Pilgrimage’. After Lawrence’s death he is
reputation was of a pornographer who wasted his artistic talent, however great
Novelist and famous critic E.M Foster considered him as the “greatest
imaginative novelist of our generation’’.
(7) Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the
greatest novelist in English language. Conrad also written some short stories
and novels with a nautical themes that describes the trials of human spirit.
Notable works
(1) Almayer's Folly
(2) The Nigger of the
Narcissus
(3) Heart of Darkness
(4) Lord Jim
(5) The Secret Agent
Conrad is considered as a literary impressionist by many
literary critic and early modernist. His works mostly covers the theme of 19th
century realism.
Writing during the peak of English British Empire Conrad
describes his views on national events and affairs of British Empire and also
about native Poland during his lifetime.
