Prose-writers of the later Victorian Period
In the later Victorian period there were two great prose-writers-Newman and Pater. Newman was the central figure of the Oxford Movement, while Pater was an aesthete, who inspired the leaders of the Aesthetic Movement in English poetry. (a) Newman and the Oxford Movement The Oxford Movement was an attempt to recover a lost tradition. England […]
Novelists of the Later Victorian Period
The novel in the later Victorian period took a new trend, and the novels written during this period may be called ’modern’ novels. George Eliot was the first to write novels in the modern style. Other important novelists of the period were Meredith and Hardy. The year 1859 saw the publication not only of George […]
<strong><em>Poets of the Later-Victorian Period</em></strong>
Pre-Raphaelite Poets In the later Victorian period a movement took place in English poetry, which resembled something like a new Romantic Revival. It was called the Pre-Raphaelite Movement and was dominated by a new set of poetsRossetti, Swinburne and Morris, who were interested simply in beauty. They were quite satisfied with the beauty of diction, […]
Prose-writers of the early Victorian Period
The early Victorian prose is in keeping with the energetic temperament of the time. An expansive energy seems to be characteristic of the whole period, displaying itself as freely in literature as in the development of science, geographical exploration and the rapidity of economic change. This energetic mood prescribes the inventiveness and fertility of the […]
<strong><em>Novelists of the Early Victorian Period</em></strong>
In the early Victorian period the novel made a rapid progress. Novel-reading was one of the chief occupations of the educated public, and material had to be found for every taste. The result was that the scope of the novel, which during the eighteenth century dealt mainly with contemporary lite and manners, was considerably enlarged. […]
Poets of the Early Victorian Period
The most important poets during the early Victorian period were Tennyson and Browning, with Arnold occupying a somewhat lower position. After the passing away of Keats, She’ley and Byron in the early eighteen twenties, for about fifteen years the fine frenzy of the high romantics subsided ana a quieter mood ensued. With the abatement of […]
The Victorian Age (1832-1900)
The Victorian Age in English literature began in second quarter of the nineteenth century and ended by 1900. Though strictly speaking, the Victorian age ought to correspond with the reign of Queen Victoria, which extended from 1837 to 1901, yet literary movements rarely coincide with the exact year of royal accession or death. From the […]
<em>Novelists of the Romantic Age</em>
The great novelists of the Romantic period are Jane Austen and Scott, but before them there appeared some novelists who came under the spell of medievalism and wrote novels of ’terror’ or the ’Gothic novels’. The origin of this type of fiction can be ascribed to Horace Walpole’s (1717-97) The Castle of Otranto (1746). Here […]
<em>Prose-writers of the Romantic Age</em>
Though the Romantic period specialised in poetry, there also appeared a few prose-writers-Lamb, Hazlitt and De Quincey who rank very high. There was no revolt of the prose-writers against the eighteenth century comparable to that of the poets, but a change had taken place in the prosestyle also. Whereas many eighteenth century prose-writers depended on […]
<strong>Poets of the Romantic Age</strong>
The poets of the Romantic age can be classified into three groups- (i) The Lake School, consisting of Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey; (ii) The Scott group, including Campbell and Moore; and (Hi) The group comprising Byron, Shelley, and Keats. The first two groups were distinctly earlier than the third, so we have two eight years […]