EDWARD ALBERT - HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERETURE BY J.A STONE
1. THE AGE OGF TRANSITION 2.THE RETURN TO NATURE 3.THE VICTORIAN AGE 4. THE BIRTH OF MODERN 5. THE INTER WAR YEARS 6. THE MID TWENTIETH THE AGE OF TRANSITION TRANSITION TIME LINE 1740-1800 1....... HISTORICAL BACKGROUND THE PRE ROMANTIC AGE FALLS BETWEEN THE NEO CLASSICAL AGE AND ROMANTIC AGE. POLITICAL POINT OF VIEW (george lll,king of hanover who rigned fo sixty years from 1760 to 1820) it was a cultural movement in europe from 1740 onward. but the poem in pre romantic age expressed nostalgia childhoof memeories spritual world 2....... 4IMPORTANT EVENTS OF THIS AGE 1 FIRST OF ALL IN 1765 BISHOP PERCY PUBLISHED A VOLUME OF BALLLAD CALLED 'RELIQUES OF ANCIENT ENGLISH POETRY' 2 IN 1764 HORAC WALPOLE WROTE THE FIRST GOTHIC NOVEL IN ENGLISH CALLED 'THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO ' A FRIGHTING STORY FULL OF SUPERNATYURAL SET IN MEDIVEL TIME...