18. Romanticism. The poetry of p. B.Shelley, j. Keats.

Percy Bysshe Shelley (  /ˈpɜrsi ˈbɪʃ ˈʃɛli/;^[2] 4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets and is critically regarded as among the finest lyric poets in the English language. Shelley was famous for his association with John Keats and Lord Byron. The novelist Mary Shelley (née Godwin) was his second wife.

He is most famous for such classic anthology verse works as Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark, Music, When Soft Voices Die, The Cloud and The Masque of Anarchy, which are among the most popular and critically acclaimed poems in the English language. His major works, however, are long visionary poems which included Queen Mab (later reworked as The Daemon of the World),Alastor, The Revolt of Islam, Adonaïs and the unfinished work The Triumph of Life. The Cenci (1819) and Prometheus Unbound (1820) were dramatic plays in five and four acts respectively. Although he has typically been figured as a "reluctant dramatist", he was passionate about the theatre, and his plays continue to be performed today. He wrote the Gothic novels Zastrozzi (1810) and St. Irvyne (1811) and the short prose works "The Assassins" (1814), "The Coliseum" (1817) and "Una Favola" (1819).

John Keats (  /ˈkiːts/; 31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English Romantic poet. Along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, he was one of the key figures in the second generation of the Romantic movement, despite the fact that his work had been in publication for only four years before his death.^[1] One of England’s greatest poets, Keats was a key element in the Romantic Movement. Known especially for his love of the country and sensuous descriptions of the beauty of nature, his poetry also resonated with deep philosophic questions. "Ode to a Nightingale" "Ode on a Grecian Urn" and "Ode on Melancholy"

18. Realism as a literary trend. Ch. Dickens and the peculiarities of Dickens’ realism. The analysis of one of the novels. (“The Posthumous Papers o the Pickwick Club”, “Oliver Twist”)

19. L. Carroll and the peculiarities of his book “Alice in Wonderland”

20. The general characteristics of W. M. Thackeray’s literary work. The theme of snobbery. The novel “Vanity Fair” (the meaning of the title and subtitle, the main theme, the peculiar features of narration.).

21. Women writers of the 19^th century realism. J. Austen “Pride and Prejudice”/ Sh. Bronte “Jane Eyre”.

22. The poetry of 1840-1870. R. Browning, A. Tennyson.

23. The novels of Th. Hardy as a new period in the development of English realism. Naturalism and symbolism in the novels. The author’s outlook in his novels. (“Tess of the D’Urbervilles”)

24. The development of English literature at the edge of the 19^th and 20^th centuries. Neo-romanticism and R. L. Stevenson’s adventure novels. (“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

25. The development of English literature at the edge of the 19^th and 20^th centuries. J. K. Jerome “Three Men in a Boat”, A. C. Doyle’s stories.

26. “Action literature”. R. Kipling’s works: his poetry (“If”) and novels (“The Jungle Book”, “Kim”)

27. Aestheticism. O. Wilde’s stories “The Happy Prince and other stories” and the novel “The Picture of Dorian Grey”. The embodiment of paradox in O. Wilde’s works.

28. The drama of the beginning of the 20^th century. B. Shaw. “Pygmalion”.

29. The peculiarities of science fiction in G. H. Well’s novels. The analysis of one of the novels. (“The Time Machine”, “The Invisible Man”)

30. Modernism in English literature. “The stream of consciousness” technique in the novels of J. Joyce (“Ulysses”).

31. Modernism in English literature. The Bloomsbury group. V. Woolfe “Mrs. Dalloway”. Poetry of modernism: T.S. Eliot.

32. Modernism. D. H. Lawrence and the theme of people’s relations. The analysis of any novel (“The Rainbow”, “Lady Chatterley’s Lover”)

33. Critical realism. J. Galsworthy “The Forsyte Saga”. The social position of the author. The conflict between beauty and the sense of property in the novel “The Man of Property”. The embodiment of all typical features of Forsytism in Soames Forsyte.

34. Critical realism. W. S. Maugham. The author’s outlook in his novels. (““The Moon and Sixpence”).

35. Postmodernism. J. Fowles.

36. “Angry young men”. J. Osborn “Look Back in Anger”.

37. Transitional aesthetic phenomena in English literature of the 20^th century. W. Golding “Lord of the Flies”, I. Murdoch “Under the Net”, “The Sandcastle”).

38. Contemporary novel: D. Lodge, R. Doyle, I. McEwan, E. Bergess.

39. The poetry and drama of the 2^nd half of the 20^th century. D. M. Thomas, S. Heaney, S. Beckett.

40. The popular fiction of the 2^nd half of the 20^th century. The variety of genres - (fantasy, love story, psychological novel, etc.). The analysis of one of the books. (M. Spark, J. R. Tolkien, J. Rowling, B. Cartland).