Major Authors and their literary works of the Modern Age
The Most important writers of the Modern Age and their major Literary works with timeline:
The most famous Modern Age writers in English Literature are -
- Robert Bridges (1844-1930)
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
- W.B. Yeats (1865-1939)
- John Galsworthy (1867-1933)
- George Moore (1857-1933)
- George Gissing (1857-1903)
- Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
- H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
- Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
- Arnold Bennett (1867-1931)
- Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
- Walter de la Mare (1873-1956)
- Samuel Butler (1835-1902) etc.
Name of famous novelists and dramatists of Modern Age in English literature with their major works.
Major Authors and their literary works of the Modern Age are given below:
Robert Bridges (1844-1930)
- The Testament of Beauty
- The Growth of Love
- Eros and Psyche
- Prometheus the Fire Giver
- The Feast of Bacchus
- Palicio
- The Christian Captives
- The Return of Ulysses
- Achilles in Scyros
- The Humours of the Court
- Nero
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
- Widowers' Houses
- Candida
- You Never Can Tell
- Man and Superman
- Back to Methuselah
- Saint Joan
- Heartbreak House
- The Philanderer
- Mrs. Warren's Profession
- Caesar and Cleopatra
- John Bull's Other Island
- Major Barbara
- The Doctor's Dilemma
- Getting Married
- The Apple Cart
- Pygmalion
- The Dark Lady of the Sonnets
- Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant
- The Millionaire
- The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism
- Everybody's Political What is What
- Cashel Byron's Profession
- Love Among the Artists
- Androcles and the Lion
- The Devil's Disciple
- The Man of Destiny
W.B. Yeats (1865-1939)
- The King's Threshold
- The Wind among the Reeds (1899)
- The Winding Stair and Other Poems
- The Land of Heart's Desire
- The Second Coming (1920)
- The Shadowy Waters (1900)
- The Hour-glass
- The Resurrection (1927)
- The Countess Cathleen (1892)
- Masoda (1886)
- Deirdre (1907)
- The Herne's Egg (1938)
- On Baile's Strand
- The Cat and the Moon
- Ideas of Good and Evil
- Discoveries
- The Wanderings of Oisin (1889)
- The Tower
- Lake Isle of Innisfree
- Byzantium
John Galsworthy (1867-1933)
- The Silver Box
- Strife
- The Skin Game
- The Man of Property ensuet) tove to
- Justice
- Loyalties
- Escape
- The Inn of Tranquillity
- The Forsyte Saga
- The Country House
- Fraternity
- The Patrician
- The Dark Flower
- Saint's Progress
- Maid in Waiting
- Flower Wilderness
George Moore (1857-1933)
- The Brook Kerith
- Abelard and Heloise
- Ulick and Soracha
- Evelyn Innes
- Esther Waters (1894)
- A Modern Lover (1813)
- A Mummer's Wife (1885)
- A Drama in Muslin
- Spring Days (1888)
- Confessions of a Young Man
- Memoirs of My Dead Life
- Hail and Farewell ! Ave
- The Lake
- Sister Teresa
- The Untilled Field
- Conversations in Ebury Street
Modern writer George Gissing and his literary works :
George Gissing (1857-1903)
- Born in Exile
- The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
- The New Grub Street (1891)
- The House of Cobwebs (1906)
- Thyrza
- The Nether World (1889)
- The Old Woman
- In the Year of Jubilee
- The Emancipated
- By the Ionian Sea
- Eve's Ransom
- Demos :English Socialism
- Charles Dickens, a Critical Study
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
- Kim
- The Jungle Book
- Barrack-room Ballads (1892)
- Departmental Ditties (1886)
- The Seven Seas (1896)
- The Five Nations (1903)
- Tales from the Hills
- Soldiers Three
- Life's Handicap
- The Phantom Rickshaw
- Many Inventions
- The Day's Work
- Just-so Stories for Little Children
- Rewards and Fairies
- Debits and Credits
- Inclusive Verse and Poems (1930)
H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
- The Time Machine
- The Invisible Man
- The Food of the Gods
- The First Men in the Moon
- Love and Mr. Levisham
- Kipps
- The History of Mr. Polly
- Tino-Bungay
- Mr. Britling Sees It Through to Malte
- Christina Alberta's Father
- The Wonderful Visit
- The Island of Dr. Moreau
- The Invisible Man
- Tranamam
- The War of the Worlds
- The Food of the Gods vabans )
- Marriage
- Experiment in Autobiography nog
- The Contemporary Novel
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
- The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'
- Typhoon
- Lord Jim
- Victory
- Almayer's Folly
- An Outcast of the Islands
- Youth
- Heart of Darkness
- The Secret Agent
- The Shadow of Line
- Suspense-A Napoleonic Novel
Arnold Bennett (1867-1931)
- The Old Wives' Tale
- Clayhanger
- Imperial Palace
- Riceyman Steps
- Buried Alive
- Hilda Lessways
- These Train
- Sacred and Profane Love
- The Pretty Lady
- The Love Match
- The Author's Craft
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
- The Wreck of the Deutschland
- Pied Beauty
- The Windhover
- God's Grandeur
- The Caged Skylark
- Felix Rendal
- Harry Ploughman
- Inversnaid
- Spelt From Sibyl's Leaves
- That Nature Heraditean
Walter de la Mare (1873-1956)
- The Listeners and Other Poems (1912)
- Peacock Pie (1913)
- The Fleeting and Other Poems (1933)
- Memoirs of a Midget
- Songs of Childhood
- Bells and Grass (1941)
- The Traveller (1946)
- Early the Morning
- Love
Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
- The Moon and Six Pence
- Of Human Bondage
- Cakes and Ale
- The Razors Edge
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
- The Waste Land (first pub. in 1922, in The Criterion, he dedicated the poem to Ezra Pound
- Prufrock and Other Observations (1917) [title of the poem comes from Rudyard Kipling's anti-romantic poem "The Love Song of Har Dyal"
- Gerontion
- The Hollow Men (1925)
- The Journey of the Magi (1927)
- Ash Wednesday (1930)
- Four Quartets (1944)
👉 It contains his next and most non-dramatic poetry. The four poems in this work appears separately : "Burnt Norton" (1936), "East Coker" (1940), "The Dry Salvages" (1941) and "The Little Gidding" (1942).
Poetic drama:
- Sweeney Agonistes (pub. 1926, first performed in 1934)
- Murder in the Cathedral (1935)
- The Rock (1934)
- The Family Reunion (1939)
- The Cocktail Party (1949)
- The Confidential Clerk (1954)
- The Sacred Wood
- After Strange Gods
- The Elder Statesman (first performed in 1958, published in 1959)
- The Use of Poetry and the use of Criticism
- The Eternal Moment
- The Idea of a Christian Society
- What is a Classic ?
- For Lancelot Andrews
- Elizabethan Essays
- Points of View
Essays:
- Tradition and the Individual Talent (1920)
- Hamlet and his Problem (1920)
W. H. Auden (1907-1973)
- Look Stranger
- The Orators (1932)
- The Dance of Death (1933)
- The Shield of Achilles (1955)
- City Without Walls (1969)
- Epistle to A Godson (1972)
- New Year Letter
- The Age of Anxiety
- The Poet's Tongue
- Collected Shorter Poems
- The Oxford Book of Light Verse
Edith Sitwell (1887-1964)
- The Drowned Sun (her first poem pub. 1913 in 'Daily Mirror')
- The Sleeping Beauty
- Troy Park
- Street Songs (1942)
- The Songs of the Cold (1945)
- The Shadow of Cain (1947)
- Aspects of Modern Poetry
- Collected English Eccentrices
- Clowns' Houses (1918)
- The Wooden Pegasus (1920)
- Bucolic Comedies (1923)
- Facade (1926)
Osbert Sitwell (1892-1969)
- Left Hand, Right Hand (in five volumes)
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
- The Voyage Out
- Jacob's Room
- Mrs. Dalloway
- To The Light House
- The Waves
- Flush
- Orlando : A Biography
- The Common Reader
- Roger Fry
- The Death of the Moth
- Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown
- A Room of One's Own
- Between the Acts (Unfinished)
E. M. Forster (1879-1970)
- Abinger Harvest
- Two Cheers for Democracy
- A Passage to India
- Howard's End
- The Hill of Devi
- The Celestial Omnibus
- Collected Short Stories
- Where Angels Fear to Tread
- The Longest Journey
- The Story of the Siren
- A Room with a View
- The Eternal Moment
George Orwell (1903-1950)
- The Third Man
- A Gun for Sale
- James Joyce (1882-1941)
- Ulysses
- Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Finnegans Wake
- Dubliners
D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
- Sons and Lovers
- Woman in Love
- Lady Chatterly's Lover
- The Rainbow
- The White Peacock
- Kangaroo
- The Plumed Serpent
Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
- The Way of All Flesh
- Odyssey
- Evolution Old and New
- Essays on Life, Arts and Sciences
- Shakespeare's Sonnets Reconsidered
- Unconscious Memory
- Life and Habit
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
- Chrome Yellow (1921)
- Point Counter Point (1928)
- Brave New World (1932)
- The Burning Wheel
- Those Barren Leaves
- After Many a Summer
- Eyeless in Gaza
- Antic Hay
- Time Must Have a Stop
- The Defeat of Youth
- The Perennial Philosophy
- The Devils of Loudun
Graham Green (1904-1991)
- England Made Me
- The Power and the Glory
- Brighton Rock
- The Heart of the Matter
- The End of the Affair
- A Burnt-out Case
- The Comedians
- Our Man in Havana
- The Quiet American
- Battlefield
- Travels with My Aunt
- The Third Man
- A Gun For Sale
George Orwell (1903-1950)
- The Animal Farm
- The Road to Wigan Pier
- Nineteen Eighty-Four
- Burmese Days
- Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
- The Pisan Cantosh
- Hugh Selwyn Mobberly
John Masefield (1874-1967)
- Dauber (1913)
- Reynard the Fox (1919)
- The Everlasting Mercy (1911)
- The Widow in the Bye Street (1912)
- The Daffodil Fields (1913)
- Salt-water Ballads (1902)
- Lollingdon Downs (1917)
- Biography
- August 1914
- Ballads and Poems (1919)
- Right Royal (1920)
- The Land Workers (1943)
- Good Friday (1917)
- A King's Daughter (1923)
- The Trial of Jesus (1925)
- Thristran and Isolt (1927)
- The Coming of Christ (1928)
- The Tragedy of Nan
- Midsummer Night (1928)
- End and Beginning (1934)
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
His literary works are :
- The Sphinx
- The Ballad of Reeding Gaol
- The Canterville Ghost
- De Profundis
- The Duchess of Padua
- The Importance of Being Earnest
- An Ideal Husband
- Lady Windermere's Fan
- Salome
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- The Happy Prince and the Other Tales
Stephen Spender (1909-1977)
- The Still Centre
- Vienna
- Ruins and Visions in the
- The Destructive Element
- World Within World
- Collected Poems
Sean O'Cassey (1884-1964)
- Juno and Polycock
- The Shadow of a Gunman
- The Plough and the Stars
- The Silver Tassie
- Within the Gates
- The Star Turns Red
- Red Roses for Me
- Oak Leaves and Lavender
- Cockadoodle Dandy
William Somerset Maugham (1839-1917)
- A Man of Honour
- Lady Frederick
- Caesar's Wife
- The Constant Wife
- Jack Straw
- Mrs. Dot
- The Circle
- For Services Rendered
- Home and Beauty
J. B. Priestley (1894-1984)
- Dangerous Corner
- Time and the Conways
- I Have been Here Before
- An Inspector Calls
- When We are Married
- A Severed Head
Harold Pinter (1930 Born)
- The Birthday Party
- The Dumb Waiter
- The Care Taker
- A Night Out
- The Home Coming
- Old Times
- Silence
C. P. Snow (1905-1980)
- Times of Hope
- The New Men
- The Masters
- Strangers and Brothers
- The Conscience of the Rich
- Corridors of Power
- The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution
C. Day Lewis (1904-1972)
- A Time to Dance
- Transitional Poem
- The Magnetic Mountain
- Overtures to Death and Other Poems
- The Friendly Tree
- From Feathers to Iron
- Word Over All
- Starting Point
- Child of Misfortune
- Hope for Poetry
- Poetry for You
- The Poetic Image
- Transitional Poems
William Gerald Golding
- Lord of Flies
- The Inheritors
- Pincher Martin
- Free Fall
- The Scorpian God
- The Spire
I. A. Richards (1893-1979)
- Principles of Literary Criticism
- Practical Criticism
- Coleridge On Imagination
- The Meaning of Meaning
- The Foundation of Aesthetics
F. R. Leavis
- New Bearings in English Poetry
- For Continuity
- The Great Tradition
- The Common Pursuit
- Revaluation
- D. H. Lawrence : Novelist
- Education and the University
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