Victorian age major writings

Major writers of Victorian age

1. Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

Famous Poems:

1. The Lotus Eaters

2. The Dying Swan

3. Vision of Sin

4. The Lady of Shalott

5. Morte d' Arthur

6. In Memoriam

7. Locksley Hall

8. The Princes

9. Crossing the Bar

10. Tears Idle Tears

11. Tithonus

12. Ulysses

13. Oenone

14. The Lover's Tale

15. The Idylls of the King

Famous comedy:

1. Harold

2. Queen Marry

3. The Falcon

2. Robert Browning (1812-1889)

Famous Poems:

1. The Ring of the Book (an epic poem)

2. My Last Duchess

3. Love Among the Ruins

4. A Grammarian's Funeral

5. The Pied Piper of Hamelin

6. Porphyrin's Lover

7. A Light Woman

8. The Patriot

9. Fra Lippo Lippi; Rabbi Ben Ezra

10. Andrea Del Sarto

11. A Lover's Quarrel

Famous drama:

1. Strafford

2. King Victor and King Charles

3. Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)

Famous Prose:

1. Essay in Criticism

2. Culture and Anarchy

3. The Study of Poetry

4. Literature and Dogma

Famous Poems:

1. Dover Beach

2. The Scholar Gypsy

3. Thyrsis (elegy)

4. Rugby Chapel (elegy)

5. Sohrab and Rustom

4. William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)

Famous Novels:

1. Vanity Fair

2. Catherine: A Story

3. The Newcomes

4. The History of Henry Esmond

5. The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century

5. Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

Famous Novels:

1. Great Expectations

2. Pickwick Papers

3. Oliver Twist

4. A Tale of Two Cities

5. Bleak House

6. Hard Times

7. The Old Curiosity Shop

8. Our Mutual Friend

9. Little Dorrit

10. Nicholas Nickleby

11. The Battle of Life

6. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

Famous Poem:

1. At an Inn

2. The Darkling Thrush

3. The Man He Killed

4. I Have Lived With Shades

5. A Meeting with Despair

Famous Novels:

1. Tess of the d'Urbervilles

2. A Pair of Blue Eyes

3. Far From the Madding Crowd

4. The Return of the Native

5. The Poor Man and the the Lady

6. The Mayor of Castebridge

7. Under the Greenwood Tree

7. Maxim Gorky (1868-1936)

Famous Novels:

1. Mother

2. My Childhood

8. Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)

Famous Novels:

1. War and Peace

2. Anna Karenina

Famous drama:

1. The Fruits of Enlightenment

2. The Power of Darkness

9. R. L. Stevenson (1850-1894)

Famous Novels:

1. The Treasure Island

2. Kidnapped

3. The New Arabian Nights

4. Black Arrows

10. Charlotte Bronte (1816-1865)

Famous Novels:

1. Jane Eyre

2. Shirley

3. The Professor

4. Villette

Autobiography Book: The Life of Charlotte

11. Emily Bronte (1818-1848)

Famous Novel: Wuthering Heights

12. George Eliot (1819-1880)

Famous Novels:

1. The Mill on the Floss

2. Adam Bede

3. Silas Marner

4. Middle March

5. Romola

Famous Poem: 1. The Spanish Gypsy

13. E.B. Browning (1806-1861)

1. How Do I love Thee

2. Grief

3. Consolation

4. Lost Mistress

14. Alexander Dumas (1802-1870)

Famous Novels:

1. Three Musketeers

2. The New Troy

3. Black Tulip

4. Twenty Years After

15. Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Major writings:

1. The Adventure of Tom Sawyer

2. Adventure of Huckleberry Finn

16. Oscar Wilde (1856-1900)

Major writings:

1. A Woman of No Importance

2. An Ideal Husband

3. Lady Windermere's Fan

4. The Pictures of Dorian Gray

5. The Importance of Being Earnest

6. The Selfhis Giant

17. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

Famous Novel: 1.The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (Novel)

Short Stories:

1. The Tell Tale Heart

2. The Black Cat

3. The Gold Bug

4. The Oval Portrait

5. The Light House

Famous Poem: 1. To Helen