Spring 2025., Dr. Laurie Camp Hatch 

A resource site for ENGL 262 Romanticism to Resistance: British Literature since 1780 at Vanguard University.  Collaborative Cultural and Textual Context projects will be produced here as a part of course.

Timelines, Galleries, and Maps


"Your Own Comes First" by Lord Kitchener | Gallery Image

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This song is performed by Lord Kitchener who is one of the most famous Calypso musicians. The song is a call for the people of Jamaica, Grenada, and Barbados to put their people first. With the final lines… more

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Love Letter I | Gallery Image

  • Created by Anwar Jalal Shemza in 1969
  • Heavily influenced by artists who explored “modernism through the double prism of Islamic and Western aesthetics”.
  • Noticed in “Love Letter I”… more
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"Calypso" by Kamau Brathwaite | Gallery Image

Inspired by Calypso music, this poem is as much a song as it is a social and political commentary. The rhymes and repetition add to the rhythm of the poem, which is meant to resemble Calypso music. The fourth portion draws a contrast in the lyrics between lines that would be seen in many traditional Caribbean songs versus the heavy tourism plaguing the islands as well as the lack of… more

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Voices of Post Colonialism | Timeline

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Ezra Pound and Imagism | Timeline

A timeline of events happening in correspondence to Ezra Pound and Imagism

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Blast Journal (1914) | Gallery Image

Blast, a modernist journal, was created by Wyndham Lewis alongside writers such as Ezra Pound in 1914. Its explosive cover – bold BLAST lettering set against a magenta background– serves as a visual manifesto rejecting the ornate traditions of the Victorians and Romantics. more

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"In a Station of the Metro" from Poetry: A Magazine of Verse | Gallery Image

Published in the April 1913 issue of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, Ezra Pound’s “In a Station of the Metro” embodies the Imagist ideal. The poem is only 14 words long and creates a clear and concise image of a subway. 

The apparition of these faces in the crowd: 

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Modernism in Modern Art | Gallery Image

  • Title: Composition VII
  • Artist: Wassily Kandinsky
  • Year: 1913

“Composition VII”more

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Modernism | Timeline

A timeline depicting major events significant to the modern era through the present day.

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Merry-Go-Round (1916) | Gallery Image

Mark Gertler painted this in 1916 and it depicts the circular and mechanical aspects of World War both on the homefront and on the battlefield.

Gertler, Mark. The Merry-Go-Round . 1916. Tate Gallery, London. www.tate.org.

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