1801 |
Walter Scott, Ballads |
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1802 |
William Wordsworth, "Preface to Lyrical Ballads." |
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1803
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Thomas Chatterton ,Works Matthew Gregory Lewis (posthumous)
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1804 |
Williamn Blake, Jerusalem |
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1805 |
Walter Scott, Lay of the Last Minstrel |
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1808 |
[Goethe, Faust (Part 1)] |
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1809 |
London exhibition of paintings by William Blake |
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1810 |
Walter Scott, Lady of the Lake |
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1812 |
George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (I & 11).
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1813 |
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Percy Byshhe Shelley, Queen Mab
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1814 |
Walter Scott, Waverley |
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1816 |
Percy Byshhe Shelley, "Alastor"
Jane Austen, Emma
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1817 |
John Keats, Poems.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine founded
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1818 |
John Keats, Endymion
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Walter Scott, Rob Roy
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1819 |
Walter Scott, Ivanhoe |
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1820 |
John Keats, "Lamia," "Isabella," "The Eve of St. Agnes," and other poems
Percy Byshhe Shelley,Prometheus Unbound |
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1821 |
John Keats dies
Percy Byshhe Shelley, "Adonais" and Defence of Poetry
Thomas DeQuincey, Confessions of an Opium Eater
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1822 |
Shelley drowns near Lerici, Italy
Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia
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1823 |
SGoerge Gordon Lord Byron,
Don Juan |
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1824 |
Byron dies near Missilonghi, Greece.
Thomas Carlyle transl. of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
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1826 |
[James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans]
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1829 |
Thomas Carlyle, "Signs of the Times"
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1830 |
Alfred Tennyson, Poems Chiefly Lyrical
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1831 |
Alfred Tennyson, Poems
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1833 |
Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus
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1836 |
Charles Dickens, Pickwick Papers
[Ralph Waldo Emerson,
"Nature"]
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1837 |
Thomas Carlyle, French Revolution
[Nathaniel Hawthorne, Twice Told Tales] |
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1838 |
Lady Guest, Mabinogion
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1839 |
Shelley, . Poetical Works
(posthumous) |
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1841 |
Punch begins publication
Thomas Carlyle,
On Heroes and Hero-Worship
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1842 |
Robert Browning, Dramatic Lyrics
Alfred Tennyson, Poems
Mudie establishes the Circulating Library
Thomas B. Macauley, Lays of Ancient Rome
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1843 |
Wordsworth appointed Poet Laureate.
John Ruskin,
Modern Painters (1).
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1845 |
[E. A. Poe, Tales of Mystery and Imagination
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1846 |
George Eliot, translation of Strauss's Life of Jesus
Ruskin, Modern Painters (II)
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1847 |
Emily Brontė, Wuthering Heights
Charlotte Brontė, Jane Eyre
William Makepeace Thackeray,
Vanity Fair
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1848 |
Dante Gabriel Rosetti, William Holman Hunt, and John Everett Millais form the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood |
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1849 |
[Henry David Thoreau, "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience"] |
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1850 |
Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam
William Wordsworth dies and The Prelude published.
Tennyson appointed Poet Laureate
[Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter]
Arthur Hugh Clough, Dipsychus
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1851 |
John Ruskin, Stones of Venice (through 1853).
[Herman Melville,
Moby Dick]
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1852 |
Matthew Arnold, Empedocles on Etna
John Henry Newman, The Idea of a University
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1854 |
Charles Dickens, Hard Times
[Henry David Thoreau, Walden]
Coventry Patmore, The Angel in the House, .
Part 1 |
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1855 |
Robert Browning, Men and Women
Alfred Tennyson, Maud and Other Poems
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, North and South
[Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass]
[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hiawatha]
Harriet Martineau, Autobiography
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1856 |
William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones,
The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine |
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1857 |
Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit
Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's Schooldays
Anthony Trollope,Barchester Towers
[Gustave Flaubert,Madame Bovary]
[Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs de Mal]
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1858 |
John Ruskin, "Traffic"
Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne
William Morris, The Defence of Guenevere
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1859 |
Tennyson, Idylls of the King
George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel
Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
John Stuart, Mill On Liberty
Samuel Smiles, Self-Help
Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species
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1860 |
John Ruskin, Unto This Last
George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
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1861 |
[H.C. Andersen, Fairy Tales]
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
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1862 |
Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market and Other Poems. Text -- Overview
George Meredith. Modern Love [Victor Hugo, Les Miserables]
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1864 |
Matthew Arnold, "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time."
John Henry Newman, Apologia pro vita sua
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1865 |
Lewis CarrolI, Alice in Wonderland
[Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace]
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1866 |
Algernon Charles Swinburne, Poems and Ballads , First Series.
[Fyodor Dostoyevski, Crime and Punishment]
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1868 |
Robert Browning, The Ring and the Book
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1869 |
Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Holy Grail and Other Poems
John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women
Matthew Arnold, Culture and Anarchy
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1870 |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Poems
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1873 |
Walter Pater, The Renaissance
John Stuart Mill Autobiography (posthumous)
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1874 |
Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
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1875 |
Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now |
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1878 |
Thomas Hardy, Return of the Native
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1879 |
[Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House]
George Meredith, The Egoist
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1881 |
D. G. Rossetti, Ballads and Sonnets
[Ibsen, Ghosts]
[Henry James, Portrait of a Lady]
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1883 |
Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
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1884 |
[Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn]
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1888 |
Rudyard Kipling, Plain Tales from the Hills
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1890 |
Rudyard Kipling, Barrack-Room Ballads
[Henrik Ibsen, Hedda Gabler]
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1891 |
Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
W. B. Yeats, Ernest Dowson, and Lionel Johnson form The Rhymers' Club.
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1894 |
The Yellow Book (includes Max Beerbohm and Aubrey Beardsley).
Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Books
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1895 |
Oscard Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
W. B. Yeats, Poems
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1896 |
[Anton Chekhov, The Seagull]
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1898 |
Thomas Hardy, Wessex Poems
George Bernard Shaw, Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant
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1899 |
[Anton Chekhov, Uncle Vanya]
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1900 |
Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim
[Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie]
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