Important Authors and their Works
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Important Authors and their Works |
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Jane
Austen (1775-1817)
1790-93-
Juvenilia
(written)
1803- Lady
Susan (bought by publisher but never issued)
1811- Sense
and Sensibility
1813- Pride
and Prejudice
1814- Mansfield
Park
1815- Emma
1817- Northanger
Abbey (posthumously published), Persuasion
(posthumous)
1871- The
Watsons (posthumously published fragment)
Joanna Baillie (1762-1851)
1790- Poems, Fugitive Pieces
1798- Plays on the Passions, volume I
1802- Plays on the Passions, volume II
1804- Miscellaneous Plays
1810- The Family Legend
1812- Plays on the Passions, volume III
1821- Metrical Legends of Exalted Characters
1836- Dramas,
Plays on the Passions, volumes IV, X, XI
1840- Fugitive Verses
1851- Dramatical and Poetical Works
Baillie, a Scottish playwright and poet, appealed in her "Introductory Discourse" to Plays on the Passions (1798) to an analytic, revisionist mode of tragedy that would reconstruct the tragic, "tyrannical passions" from the little, unremembered gestures of everyday life. The majority of her works were in the genre of drama. These dramas were called closet dramas and were never intended for production on the stage. (Source)
Anna Letitia Barbauld(1743-1825)
1773- Poems,
Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose
1778- Lessons
for Children
1781- Hymns in
Prose for Children
1794- Edition of Akenside
1797- Edition of Collins, Washing
Day
1804- Volumes of Correspondence of Samuel
Richardson
1810- The British
Novelists
1811- The Female
Speaker
1812- Eighteen
Hundred and Eleven
Barbauld was attacked by critic John Wilson Croker for being a woman-author and for her attempts at satire in her poem, 1811. She published many works up until Croker's criticism, but his harsh remarks effectively ended her publishing career.
William Blake- 1757-1827
c.1788- All
Religions are One, There is
No Natural Religion
1789: Songs
of Innocence, The Book of Thel
1783- Poetical
Sketches
1790- Marriage
of Heaven and Hell
1791- The
French Revolution
1793- America:
A Prophecy, Visions of the Daughters of Albion
1794- Europe:
A Prophecy, The Book of Urizen, Songs
of Experience
1795: The
Book of Los, The Song of Los,
The Book of Ahania
1804- Milton:
A Poem, Jerusalem:
The Emanation of the Giant Albion
Blake was best known for his illuminations of his works, and those of others. His artwork has gone to inspire many other authors, including Thomas Harris with Red Dragon. He became more and more radical about his political views as he aged, and died in obscurity with few friends.
Edmund Burke 1729-1797
1757- Inquiry
into the Origins of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
1770- Thoughts on the Cause of the Present
Discontents
1774- On American Taxation
1790- Reflections on the Revolution in France
Selected
Works-Linked Etexts
Burke was against the French Revolution and against change in general. He sought to keep a balance in life and in political affairs striving to prolong the status quo. He defended the monarchy, moral history, aristocracy, the church, and was an avid defender of the constitution as well current state of Parliament.
Robert Burns (1759-1796)
1773- Once I love a Bonnie Lass
1774- Handsome Nell
1775- O Tibbie, I hae seen the day
1783- A Prayer in the Prospect of Death
1785- To a Mouse, The Twa Dogs
1786- To a Louse
1788- The Chevalier's Lament
1794- A red, red Rose
Index of
linked e-texts
Robert Burns (1759-1796) is considered Scotland's greatest poet. Best known for his feeling descriptions of country life and for satires against the political and religious hypocrisy of the day, Burns wrote much of his poetry in his broad Scots dialect. Late in his life, supporting himself as an exciseman, Burns helped to collect and also wrote a wide-range of traditional Scottish songs. (Source)
George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron (1778-1824)
1807- Hours of Idleness
1809- English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
1812- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,
cantos I & II
1813- The Giaour, The Bride of Abydos
1814- The Corsair, Lara
1815- She
Walks In Beauty, Hebrew Melodies
1816- The Prisoner of Chillon,
Childe Harold (Canto III)
1817- Manfred
1818-
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Beppo, Don Juan (Cantos I &
II), Childe Harold (Canto IV)
1819-24- Don Juan (Cantos III to XVI)
1821- Cain, Sardanapalus, Mazeppa, The Island
1822- The Vision of Judgement
List
of Linked E-texts
Lord Byron was one of the most infamous poets of the Romantic Movement. His amorous exploits became mythic in proportion making him known the world over for his affairs with ladies of note and half-siblings alike. Byron was taken by Napoleon and even glorified him in verse. Byron became so enamored with the figure that he began to sign his name, "N.B."
John
Clare (1793-1864)
1820-
Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery
1821-
The
Village Minstrel
1827-
The
Shepherd's Calendar with Village Stories and Other Poems
1835-
The Rural Muse
John Clare was an English poet who lived mostly in rural Northamptonshire from 1793 to 1864. He is now regarded as the most important English poet of the natural world, but he also wrote many poems, essays and letters about love, politics, sex, poetry, corruption, environmental and social change, poverty and folk life. He was so sensitive to changes and tragedy in life that he suffered a mental collapse and was institutionalized in 1837. (Source)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
1798- Lyrical Ballads
1795- The
Eolian Harp
1797- This
Lime-tree Bower My Prison
1798- Frost At Midnight, Kubla Khan
1801- Christabel
1802- Dejection: An Ode
1817- Biographia
Literaria
English lyrical poet, critic, and philosopher, whose Lyrical Ballads,(1798) written with William Wordsworth, started the English Romantic movement. He suffered from neuralgic and rheumatic pains and became addicted to opium. After 1817 Coleridge devoted himself to theological and politico-sociological works. Coleridge was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1824. (Source)
William Godwin (1756-1836)
1783- A
Defence Of The Rockingham Party
1784- Imogen:
A Pastoral Romance: From the Ancient British.
1793- An
Enquiry Concerning the Principles
of Political Justice and Its Influence
on General Virtue and
Happiness
1794- Things
as they are, or the Adventures of Caleb
Williams.
1801- Thoughts
occasioned by the perusal of Dr. Parr's Spital Sermon
1815- The history of England, for the use of schools and young
persons
1831- Thoughts
on man, his nature, productions, and
discoveries.
Godwin married Mary Wollstonecraft and was the father of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. He was against the established government, and supported many radical causes. He was best known for his political views.
William Hazlitt (1778-1830)
1805- An Essay on
the Principles of Human Action
1806- Free Thoughts on Public Affairs
1810- New and Improved Grammar of the English
Language
1817- Characters of Shakespeare
1818- A View of the English Stage, English
Poets
1819- English Comic
Writers, Political Essays with
Sketches of Public Characters
1825- The Spirit of the Age: Contemporary
Portraits
1826- The Plain Speaker
1828-1830- Life of Napoleon (4 volumes)
Hazlitt was the son of a Unitarian minister, and was expected to follow in his father's profession. However, after beginning school, he had a change of heart. He left the ministry behind and attempted to paint portraits. He only turned to writing when he suffered from lack of success as a painter. During his writing career, he established himself as the authority on the writings of William Shakespeare. He is still considered one of the foremost Shakespearian critics today.
John Keats (1795-1821)
1818- Endymion: A Poetic Romance
1819- Lamia
1820- Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream,
The Eve of St. Agnes, La
Belle Dame
Sans Merci, Ode to A Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn
List of
Linked E-texts
English lyric poet, usually regarded as the archetype of the Romantic writer. Keats felt that the deepest meaning of life lay in the apprehension of material beauty, although his mature poems reveal his fascination with a world of death and decay. After being harshly criticized for his poetry, Keats realized that his health was in decline and retreated to Rome to convalesce. However, while in Rome, he died of tuberculosis. (Source)
Sir
Walter Scott (1771-1832)
Scott's work shows the influence of the 18th century
enlightenment. He believed every human was basically decent regardless of class,
religion, politics, or ancestry. Tolerance is a major theme in his historical
works. The Waverley Novels express his belief in the need for social progress
that does not reject the traditions of the past. He was the first novelist to
portray peasant characters sympathetically and realistically, and was equally
just to merchants, soldiers, and even kings. Scott's amiability,
generosity, and modesty made him popular with his contemporaries. He was also
famous for entertaining on a grand scale at his Scottish estate,
Abbotsford. (Source)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
1817-
Mont Blanc,
Hymn To Intellectual Beauty
1818- Ozymandias
1820- Prometheus Unbound, Ode To The
West Wind, To A Skylark
1821- Epipsychidon, Adonais: An Ellegy on the Death
of John Keats, A Defence of Poetry
1824- The Triumph of Life
English Romantic poet who rebelled against English politics and conservative values. Shelley drew no essential distinction between poetry and politics, and his work reflected the radical ideas and revolutionary optimism of the era. (Source)
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
1787- Thoughts
on the Education of Daughters
1788- Mary, a fiction
1789- The Female Reader
1793- History
and Moral View of the Origins and Progress of the French Revolution
1790- A Vindication of the Rights of Man
1792- Vindication
of the Rights of Woman
1794- An Historical and Moral View of the origin and
progress of the French Revolution
1796- Letters
Written During a Short Residence in Norway, Denmark and Sweden
1797- MARIA
or The Wrongs of Woman, Essay "On Poetry"
1798- Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman
1798- Posthumous Works
Mary Wollstonecraft was an early
feminist who wrote tracts and pushed for women's rights. Her work, Maria,
served as a propagandist piece for her age. She married William Godwin
after having an affair with Gilbert Imlay, an American businessman. She
died during childbirth having her daughter Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
1789- An Evening Walk
1793- Descriptive Sketches
1798- Lyrical Ballads with
S.T. C.
1805- The Prelude
1807- Poems in Two Volumes
1814- The
Excursion
1815- The
White Doe of Rylstone
1822- Ecclesiastical
Sketches
1825- Yarrow
Revisited, and Other Poems
1842- Poems,
Chiefly of Early and Late Years
1850- The
Prelude
1888-
The
Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth
Last updated: June 21, 2005