1817 - 1818: Lalla Rookh to Northanger Abbey

1817 to 1818: Lalla Rookh to Northanger Abbey.

Chronology of World, British and American Literature

Thomas Moore. Irish. 1817. Tales. Lalla Rookh. Four oriental tales. Daughter of emperor of Delhi on way to meet her betrothed. Meets poet who relates tales. She falls in love with him. He turns out to be her betrothed.

William Cullen Bryant. American. 1817. Poetry. “Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood.” Finds solace in the woods for the guilt and misery of the world.

Lord Byron. British. 1817. Poetic drama. Manfred. Hero sells himself to the Devil and lives without human sympathies in solitude in the Alps.

William Cullen Bryant. American. 1817. Poetry. Thanatopsis. Seeks comfort in Nature for death. Time comes to join the “innumerable caravan.”

Jane Austen. British. 1818. Novel. Northanger Abbey. Girl imagines Abbey is Gothic nightmare. Learns she is wrong.