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4. English Literature Today. 
 
During the 1970s and early 1980s, such writers as Greene, Lessing and Le Carre continued 
to produce important novels. New writers also appeared. Writers of earlier times shared with their 
readers a common value system and sense of what was significant in human life. This helped them 
to determine their choice of subjects, themes and methods of expression. In contrast, the modern 
age has witnessed the disintegration of public background of belief, and it is their own personal 
visions of life and reality that modern writers express. This personalized view of reality has resulted 
in significant changes in the subject matter and style of modern poetry and fiction. It has led to the 
creation of works concerned foremost with the exploration of the moods, thoughts, and feelings of 
individuals - their inner life. 
Modern writers are creating their works in different genres and various themes. John Fowler 
combined adventure and mystery in such novels as “The French Lieutenant’s Woman” (1969), 
Margaret Drabble described the complex lives of educated middle-class people in London in “The 
Garrick Years”(1964), “The Middle Ground”(1980) and other novels. Iris Murdoch’s novels are 
psychological studies of upper middle-class intellectuals. 
The three leading English poets today are Ted Hughes, Philip Larkin, and Donald Davie. Ted 
Hughs produced a major work in his cycle of “Crow” poems (1970-1971). Philip Larkin’s verse 
has been published in his collection “High Windows” (1974). Many of Davie’s poems were 
collected in “In the Stopping Train” (1977). Drama is also flourishing in today’s English literature. 
At the end of the XX century Harold Pinter continued to write disturbing plays. His plays “No 
Man’s Land”(1975), and “Betrayal” (1978) are highly individual. English playwright Tom Stoppard 
won praise for the verbal brilliance, intricate plots, and philosophical themes of his plays. His 
“Jumpers”(1972) and “Travesties” (1974) are among the most original works in Modern English 
drama. David Hare in his “Plenty”( 1978) wrote about the decline in postwar English society. The 
dramatist Simon Gray created vivid portraits of troubled intellectuals in “Butley” (1971) and 
“Otherwise Engaged” (1975). Peter Shaffer wrote a complex drama about composer Wolfgang 
Amadeus Mozart, entitled “Amadeus” (1979). Caryl Churchill wrote mixing past and present in her 
comedy “Cloud Nine” (1981) and created an imaginative feminist play “Top Girls” (1982). 
Thus, English poets, writers and dramatists are continuing to create their masterpieces and are 
still enriching the world literature with their original works, so the process is going on.