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Victoriana (Things Vic- torian) Twentieth Century History Twentieth Century Authors 10 Point 20 Points 30 Points 40 Points 50 Points 10 Point 20 Points 30 Points 40 Points 50 Points 30 Points 40 Points 50 Points Victorian Authors Restoration & Romantic Authors
Author of Gulliver’s Travels and A Modest Proposal
Jonathan Swift
Kept a diary for nine years ( ) and recorded may events.
Samuel Pepys
Wrote The Tyger and The Lamb
William Blake
Wrote She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways; Composed upon Westminster Bridge, and The World Is Too Much with Us
William Wordsworth
to see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour
William Blake
Victoria’s reign occurred in a period of: A.great change B. political stability C. social stability D. all of the above
D. All of the above
By 1900, the British Empire: A. was at its height B. was economically bankrupt C. was declining D. all of the above
A. Was at its height
One problem in the first decade of Victoria’s reign in Ireland was the A. Land shortage B. Potato famine C. Population boom D. all of the above
B. Potato famine
The deplorable living conditions in British ________ was brought about by the rise of industry.
cities
___, ______ and ______ were softened by sentimentality in the Victorian Age into tender courtships, joyous motherhoods, and deathbed scenes with angels.
sex, birth, and death
Wrote The Eagle: A Fragment
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Wrote Sonnet 43
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Wrote Dover Beach
Matthew Arnold
Wrote When I Was One-and-Twenty
A. E. Housman
The most beloved novelist of the Victorian Age, he wrote about many evils - becoming world-famous.
Charles Dickens
How did the Victorian Period end?
With the death of Queen Victoria!
What do Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand have in common?
They gained their independence from Britain in the first decade of the twentieth century.
His book, Origin of Species was a bombshell because it seems to contradict the biblical account of special creation of each species.
Charles Darwin
He traced economic injustices to capitalism.
Karl Marx
His theories on psychology – that motives for behavior could be traced to the irrationally driven subconscious rocked the twentieth century.
Sigmund Freud
Wrote Night
Elie Wiesel
Wrote Hawk Roosting
Ted Hughes
Wrote The Lake Isle of Innisfree
William Butler Yeats
Wrote Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
Dylan Thomas
Wrote The Wild Swans at Coole
William Butler Yeats
Make your wager
What was first known as “the Great War” and “the War to End All Wars.”
World War I