This semester in Britist Literature we've covered three main periods: the Romantic Period, the Victorian Period, and the Modernist Period. Each contrasting the others in it's own way. Let's take a blog to have a flash back on British Literature has evolved...
First there was the Romantic Period (1789-1830). This period was characterized by imagination, emotion, idealism, inclusion of everyone, and everything was fluid. Everything about this period was new and opposite from everything before it. Much of the texts we covered in this period had political opinions. However I'm not really into politics so my favorite text we covered was Ode to e Grecian Urn by John Keats. I enjoyed how it covered art as a way to leave something behind, a way to preserve memories.
Next came the Victorian Period (1830-1901). This was an age caught up in technological jumps and urbanization. Everything was expected to be proper and polite at all times. Tradition was valued above all. I really enjoyed how many writers of this period brought a duality to their characters. No one was entirely good or entire bad. My favorite was My The Last Duchess by Robert Browning. The Duke could be seen from so many different angles. He could be a murderer or he could be a broken hearted lover. He could be egotistical or he could be vulnerable.
Last we covered the Modernist Period (1914-1938). Modernists had an elitist view where only a select few could understand what many of their writers were talking about. They were atheistic, random, divided in their person, and full of brokenness. With the Great War going on a lot of the literature was reflecting on war. My favorite text was Hap by Thomas Hardy. It is a poem angry at god. All of us have question god at some point, and I enjoyed Hardy's reflection on it in a poem.
So that's are moment to reminisce on British Literature! Certainly covered some extraordinary writers and texts. We've see how literature changes and evolves through time. Literature is even still changing!
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