v  The 20th Century Period :

ü  Special features:

·         Modernism

·         Logopoeia

·         Bloomsbury group

·         Drama: great achievement with unortho dox views of society and art

                In modern plays: debates among social, psychological and religious

                Plays copy form of plays of ancient Greece and Rome.

·         Poetry: Different trends:

+        Georgian Poetry

+        Imagism

+        The modern Movement

+        Poems about world war I

·         Prose: 4 main trains:

+        The Imperialist trend: supporting idea of expansion and imperiali

+        The Progressive Realistic trend: displaying of the contrast in the working class and upperclass.

+        The decadent trend: persimism, lonely individualism, sympathy toward human.

+        The socialist Realistic trend: supporting the idea of violent revolution to change social order.

ü  Major authors and important works:

·         George Bernard Shaw ( Arms and the man, Man and superman)

·         Sean O casey ( the shadow of a Gunman, Juno and the Paycock)

·         T.S Eliot ( The waste land, the criterion)

·         A.E Housman ( Last Poems)

·         Irish Murdoch ( Under the Net, The Black Prince)