Modern Age | Authors and their Works

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 

Modern Age Multiple Choice Questions