Owing to difference in social and political attitudes,the romanticists split into two schools.Some romantic writers expressed the aspirations of the classes created by capitalism and held out an ideal,though a vague one,of a feature society free from oppression and exploitation.These were the younger generation of romanticists represented by Byron,Shelley and Keats.
2.Passive Ronmanticism:
Owing to difference in social and political attitudes,the romanticists split into two schools.Some romantic writers reflected the thinking of classes ruined by the bourgoisie,and by the way of protesting against capitalist development turned to the feudal past.These were the elder generation of romanticists,sometimes called escapist romanticists,including Wordsworth,Coleridge and Southey.
3.English Critical Realism:
English critical realism of the 19th century flourished in the forties and in the early fifties. The critical realists decribed with much vividness and great artistic skill the chief traits of the English society and criticized the capitalist system from a democratic viewpoint.English critical realists included Charles Dickens,Thackeray,the Bronte Sisters and so on..
4、Lost Generation：Writers of the first postwar era self-consciously acknowledged that they were a “Lost Generation,” devoid of faith and alienated from a civilization. It describes the Americans who remained in Paris as a colony of “expatriates” or exiles. It describes the writers like Hemingway who lived in semipoverty. It describes the Americans who returned to their native land with an intense awareness of living in an unfamiliar changing world.The famous writers were Hemingway,Fitzgwrald.
5.Imagism:Imagism was an Anglo-Amercian poetic movement flourishing in the 1910s. Its program was formulated about 1912 by the Amercian poet,Ezra Pound and the movement soon broke up in about 1917. The imagist poetry was a kind of free verse shaking off the conventional metres and emphasizing on the use of common speech,new rhythms and clear images. The two most important English poets of the first half of 20th century were Yeats and Eliot.
6.Renaissance： It refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th century. It means revival , revival of interest in ancient Greek and Roman culture. Renaissance， in essence ， was a historical period in which the European humanist thinkers a
nd scholars made attempts to get rid of conservatism in feudalist Europe and introduce new ideas that expressed the interests of the rising bourgeoisie ， to lift the restrictions in all areas placed by the Roman church authorities.Humanism is the key-note of the Renaissance.
The greatest humanist was Thomas More.
7.local colourism：Local Colourism is a type of writing that was popular in the late 19th century, particularly among authors in the South of the U.S.. This style relied heanvily on using words, phrases, and slang that were native to the particular region in which the story take place. The term has come to mean any device which implies a special focus. Whether it be geographical or temporal. A well-known loca colourism author was Mark Twain with his books Tom Sawyer and The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn.