The Song of Beowulf

Groups - 202, 207, 212, 217, 222, 227, 232, 237, 242

21. 
    Walter Scott, a founder of a historical novel – his life and work. His best novels.
    
22. 
    Translations of Byron’s Burns poetry into Uzbek and Russian.
    
23. 
    The basic problems raised by English realists of the 19^th century in their works.
    
24. 
    Charles Dickens – his life and work. His best novels.
    
25. 
    Problems of childhood and education in Charles Dickens’ novels.
    
26. 
    William Thackeray – his life and work. Snobbism according to Thackeray. “Vanity Fair”.
    
27. 
    Alfred Lord Tennison– his life and work
    
28. 
    Robert Louis Stevenson– his life and work
    
29. 
    Robert Browning and Elisabeth Browning –their life and work.
    
30. 
    Charlotte Bronte and her novel “Jane Eyre”.
    
31. 
    Elizabeth Gaskell – her life and work. “Mary Barton”.
    
32. 
    George Eliot – her life and work. Her best novels
    
33. 
    Thomas Hardy – his life and work. “Tess of the d’Urbervilles”.
    
34. 
    Oscar Wilde – his life and work. His best plays and tales. “The Picture of Dorian Grey”.
    
35. 
    Herbert Wells – his life and work. His best scientific fantastic novels.
    
36. 
    John Galsworthy – his life and work. “Forsyte Saga” and “Modern Comedy”.“Forsytism” as a phenomenon of the English society.
    
37. 
    Development of detective genre. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    
38. 
    George Bernard Shaw – his life and work. Three groups of Shaw’s plays. Plays, reflecting historical events. The most popular play “Pygmalion”.
    
39. 
    Literature of the “Lost Generation”. Richard Aldington – his life and work. “Death of a Hero”.
    
40. 
    Modernist poetry and prose.