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Victorian Literature
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The first decades (1830s to 1860s) of Queen Victoria's reign
produced a vigorous and varied body of literature that attempted to come to
terms with the current transformations of English society, but writers in
the latter decades (1870s to 1900) withdrew into AESTHETICISM, a
preoccupation with sens ....
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The major early Victorian poets, too, took the role of secular
prophets, often expressing a longing for the free play of imaginative life.
For Alfred, Lord TENNYSON, the longing found ambivalent expression in his
early lyrics; his major work, In Memoriam (1850), translated personal
grief into an affirmation of religious faith. Matthew ARNOLD, particularly
in his poem Empedocles on Etna (1852), revealed how the spirit of his own
age weakened emotional vitality. Although concerned wi.... |
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