Literary production in Britain and America between the seventeenth and nineteenth.

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John Milton Milton is one of the most important figures in English literary scene, sometimes being placed on a level with Shakespeare His work Paradise Lost is a narrative poem, published in 1667. It is considered a classic of English literature and has given rise to a widespread literary topic in literature. John Milton's work is marked by high religious idealism and interest in cosmic issues. It reveals a great knowledge of the Latin classics, Greek and Hebrew. His free verse is rich and varied. Milton responds through a psychological description of the main protagonists of the poem: God, Adam and Eve and the devil, whose attitudes eventually reveal the hopeful message that lies behind the loss of the original paradise. In the poem, heaven and hell represent moods rather than physical spaces Milton is one of the most important figures in English literary scene, sometimes being placed on a level with Shakespeare

Jonathan Swift

Was an important man of the eighteenth century English satire His works are characterized by -Expresses his political and religious - The relations between England and Ireland - An important spiritual leader of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, the city natal Use a conversational style, easy to digest and free of repetition Satire is a literary genre that dominated eighteenth century England, affecting all literary manifestations and even music. So omnipresent and powerful was satire in the neoclassical period more than a literary history has referred to him as the "Era of satire" in literature one of his famous works is Gulliver's Travels Gulliver's Travels is a novel, but it's actually a satire where reflects society and the human condition, this genre was quite common in that time Swifts work, which uses the paradox of comparison with dwarfs and giants to launch accurate barbs against the institutions of the time and ironic about the nobility of his time

WALTER SCOTT The Scott Monument, Edinburgh. Scott was an impoverished nobleman who mythologized social origins as a kind of Don Quixote. His historical novel is born well as artistic expression characteristic of the romantic nationalismand his longing tobrutal changes in the customs and values imposed by the bourgeois transformation of the world. The past is setwell for him as a kind of refuge or escape, also from place to develop the imagination. It was immediately praised by the biggest,as Goethe andManzoni. He influenced many of the writers of the nineteenth centuryand not only byhistorical novelists (so recognized a Balzac). Later,someone so lauded today as Robert LouisStevenson was a great admirer and follower of that other Scottish novelist. Scott was responsible for two major trends that have continued to this day. First,he essentially inventedthe modern historical novel, and an enormous number of imitators (and imitators of imitators) appeared in the nineteenth century. Second, his Scottish novels continued the work cycle of Ossian by James Macpherson,to rehabilitate in the public culture of the Scottish Highlands, after remaining in the shadows for years, because of mistrust toward southern bandits hills and Jacobiterebellions. As enthusiasticchairman of the Celtic Society of Edinburgh contributed to the reinvention of Scottish culture. It should be noted, however, that Scott was a Lowland Scot, and thathis re-creations of the Highlands were a bit extravagant. His organization of the visit of King George IVto Scotland in 1822 was a crucial event, leading to the tailors to invent manyScottish tartans of various clans.

work with humor and also shows many circumstances of everyday life that demonstrate the casualida, cunning, luck, bad luck, innocence, infamy, etc.

Jane Austen For me Jane Austen is an English writer very intelligent and educated because he received a preparation at home by his father, boarding, which was very important to write various interesting works. Pride and Prejudice is the most famous novels of Jane Austen and one of the first romantic comedies . The focus of the work is marriage, which is the most important decision that the Bennet sisters are going to have to make. The danger lies in choosing wrong, immaturity or lack of emotional discipline. It is a novel of personal development, in which the two main characters, Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy, each in their own way and yet, much like, should mature to overcome some crisis, learn from their mistakes in order to address the future together, overcoming class pride and prejudice Darcy Elizabeth to him The main achievement of Jane Austen as a writer is to convey a perfect image of British society at the turn of the century, under the appearances and prejudices. Describes in poetic, intelligent and ironic the lives of young people and society in eighteenth-century English countryside, through a thorough psychological and behavioral characterization of the characters.

Walt Whitman It was a controversial man in his time for his work, his book Leaves of Grass, was described as obscene for its overt sexualidad.Su work is part of the transition between transcendentalism and philosophical realism, incorporating both movements to his work, was called the father of free verse Whitman's sexuality has been so controversial as his work. While it is commonly considered as homosexual or bisexual, it is not clear that Whitman had a sexual relationship with another man, The poet addressed political issues throughout his life. opposed the extension of slavery, but was highly critical of the abolitionist movement. In 1865 he wrote the famous poem O Captain! My Captain! (Oh, Captain, My Captain!) In tribute to Abraham Lincoln after his assassination BIOGRAFA DE MARK TWAIN SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS

Was one of the greatest humorists of America, American writer, called the father of American literature. his style tends to a marked penchant for caricature. He gained fame with a selection of short stories called The Jumping Frog (1867). Among his most notable works were Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn Huckleberry end is a funny and picaresque work with humor and also shows many circumstances of everyday life that demonstrate the casualida, cunning, luck, bad luck, innocence, infamy, etc.

English and American literature in the twentieth and twentyfirst

Joseph Conrad Joseph Conrad at the time he was a teenager, had been the family's political participation. At four, he saw his father arrested, at seven, he saw his mother die, and at eleven o'clock, he saw his father die. He remained in the care of his uncle, Thaddeus Bobrowski. . These traumatic experiences stayed with Conrad for life. It fueled his desire to flee Poland. Consequently, it also instills feelings of abandonment, betrayal and guilt for leaving their homeland. These issues are explored deeply in his Lord Jim. When traveling to the Congo in Africa, Conrad could ensure economic independence, adventure, and escape the political turmoil One of his famous works is the heart of darkness where one of the main ideas is fear experienced by the main character during the course of their journey. - Curiosity leads to this character to make the trip. The horror, is a major issue, as it has a great importance in the work, which is always present, because the protagonist is described under a variety of circumstances. For example, when you're attacked on the boat, he describes the fear that happens at the time because he knows how to convey to the reader. Another example of fear or horror is when you see that Mr. Kurtz was slipping and is a witch and is there when you return to describe the fear and overcome it as it gets.

John Galsworthy . Galsworthy was a playwright of considerable technical skill. His works often took certain social demands, such as the double standard of justice applied to the upper and lower classes in Table Silver (1906) and the confrontation between capital and labor in the Strife (1909). Justice (1910), his most famous work, led to a prison reform in England. reaction Galsworthy Commitment to Galsworthy had a search for adventure, altruism and social. Man's work of established properties Galsworthy's reputation as a leading British writer In the play the man of property the author name them all and stop at each one to examine his physical and character property A man is someone, above all pragmatic, following the rules set by society for fear of scandal and the 'disorder', but of 'closed doors' little matter what happens. It is a person-because it can also be a woman - that precupa for property - in the literal sense of ownership of land, houses, objects. He is mostly owned a portrait of the gentry GEORGE BERNARD SHAW The Nobel Prize in Literature 1925 George Bernard Shaw

He was a leading critic of the theater, began his literary career as a novelist he decided to write plays in order to illustrate his criticism of the English stage, a study of phonetics infgenioso in the play Pygmalion his work so famous. savagely attack social hypocrisy

This work reflects the differences in social classes, as may be more important than social class feeling. Robert Frost

American poet considered one of the founders of modern poetry in his country, to express, with simplicity and depth philosophical sentimental and emotional life of the rural New England His poetry reflects the deepest impulses of the American man: its simplicity and love of nature and rural, its individualism, its irony and

humor mixed with a great loneliness and tragedy, but also the fundamental American value of independence David Herbert Richards Lawrence

Lawrence (Eastwood, England, September 11, 1885 - Vence, France, March 2, 1930) was an English writer, author of novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, paintings, translations and criticism literary. His literature presents a wide reflection upon the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialization, and addressed issues

relating to emotional health, vitality, spontaneity, human sexuality and instinct William Butler Yeats

This was the most fruitful period of Yeats, of his maturity and old age. Highlights include the volumes of poetry The green helmet, Responsibilities and The Wild Swans at Coole, which is evidence of a profound evolution of his lyrical language that becomes personal, powerful, accurate and dazzling. In 1925 wrote the treatise A vision, where he expresses his belief in the close relationship between the poetic imagination and universal reality. According to historian Giordano Berti in this work, the most mysterious of the Irish poet, lives the memory of the esoteric teaching of the Golden Dawn Tarot, the "28 incarnations", as Yeats explained, are phases of the transformation of being. Of this material were born, at the suggestion of his secretary Ezra Pound, beautiful poetry collections as The Tower (1928), The Spiral Staircase (1933) and Last Poems and plays, including the celebrated "Byzantium", with whom Yeats reached the zenith of his lyrics. His poetry, despite its innovative spirit, usually characterized by its formal care, symbolism and some touches that anticipate surrealism. Yeats won Irish poetry free from slavery to the molds, genres and themes of British poetry, broke with the tradition of Victorian poetry ascribing to symbolism and deepened in him for the Jungian archetypes that underlie all cultures. In December 1923, Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature