BRITISH LITERATURE – CHRONOLOGY PART – XIX/XXII

BRITISH LITERATURE – CHRONOLOGY

PART – XIX/XXII

MODERN PERIOD

1940 Dylan Thomas, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog

1941 Eliot, The Dry Salvages

1942 Eliot, Little Gidding

1944 Joyce Cary, The Horse's Mouth

1945 Henry Green, Loving; Orwell, Animal Farm; Waugh, Bride shead

Revisited; Larkin, The North Ship

1946 Green, Back; Philip Larkin, Jill; Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan

1947 Ivy Comptom Burnett, Manservant and Maidservant; Larkin, A Girl in

Winter

1948 Greene, The Heart of the Matter, Graves, The White Goddess

1949 Bowen, The Heat of the Day; Orwell, Ninteen Eighty Four; Eliot, The

Cocktail Party

1950 Auden, Collected Shorter Poems; Beckett, Molloy (in French, the first

Volume of his Trilogy)

1951 Keith Douglas, Collected Poems; Powell, A Question of Upbringing;

(First volume of A Dance to the Music of Time)

1952 D. Jones, The Anathemata; Waugh, Men at Arms

1953 Cary, Except the Lord

1954 Thorn Gunn, Fighting Terms; Golding, Lord of the Files; J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring (first volume of The Lord of the Rings); Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood; Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim

1955 Auden, Shield of Achilles; Donald Davie, Brides of Reason; Lakin, The Less Deceived; Golding, The Inheritors; Greene, The Quiet American; Brian Moore, The Lonely Passions of Fudith H; Waugh, Officers and Gentlemen; Beckett, Waiting for the Godot (first English performance)

1956 Robert Conquest (ed), New Lines; Golding, Pincher Martin; Brendan Behan, The Queer Fellow (first English performance); John Osborne, Look Back in Anger

1957 Gunn, The Sense of Movement; Hughes, The Hawk in the Rain; Muriel Spark, The Comforters; Osborne, The Entertainer

1958 Amis, I Like it Here; Behan, The Hostage; Pinter, The Birthday Party

1959 Spark, Memento Mori; A. Wesker, Roots; Golding, Free Fall

1960 Hughes, Lupercal; Pinter, The Caretaker

1961 Gunn, My Sad Captains; Waugh, Sword of Honour

1962 F.R. Leavis, Two Cultures?

1963 Amis, One Fat Englishman; Spark, The Girls of Slender Means

1964 Isherwood, A Single Man; Joe Orton, Entertaining Mr. Sloane; Golding, The Spire

1965 Edward Bond, Saved

1966 Seamus Heaney, Death of a Naturalist, Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea; Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

1967 Orton, Loot, Hughes, Wodwo

1968 Stoppard, The Real Inspector Hound

1969 Heaney, Door into the Dark; Orton, What the Butler Saw

1970 Hughes, Crow

1971 Geoffrey Hill, Mercian Hymns; Bond, Lear, Pinter, Old Times

1972 John Montague, The Rough Field; Moore, Catholics; Stoppard, Jumpers

1973 Beckett, Not I; Bond, The Sea

1974 Amis, Ending Up; Spark, The Abbess of Crewe; Beckett, That Time; Stoppard, Travesties

1975 Pinter, No Man's Land

1977 Hughes, Gaudete; Stoppard, Professional Foul; Isherwood, Christopher and his Kind

1978 Pinter, Betrayal

1979 Golding, Darkness Visible

1980 Golding, Rites of Passage

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