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Victorian Poetry. While the novel was the dominant form of literature during the Victorian era, poets continued to experiment with style and methods of story-telling in their poems. Examples of this experimentation include long narrative poems (epic poems) and the dramatic monologue as seen primarily in the writing of Robert Browning.
Nicholas Shrimpton. English literature - Victorian, Poetry, Novels: “The modern spirit,” Matthew Arnold observed in 1865, “is now awake.”. In 1859 Charles Darwin had published On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. Historians, philosophers, and scientists were all beginning to apply the idea of evolution to new areas of ...
Robert Browning is considered to be one of the most important poets of the Victorian era. The 19th-century English wordsmith was celebrated for the way he addressed universal themes, such as the human condition. Like many poets, Browning’s verse was influenced by other writers.
Towards the concluding years of 18 th century, Romanticism was a full-fledged movement in England. Many earlier poets had presented their ideas through their poems and by the end of the century, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth and Percy Bysshe Shelley were born. In 1798, Lyrical Ballads was published and became an overnight success.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 1806–1861. Engraving from original Painting by Chappel, 1872. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Among all female poets of the English-speaking world in the 19th century, none was held in higher critical esteem or was more admired for the independence and courage of her ...
The Victorian era was a period of massive cultural, political, scientific, and religious change. New standards of morality and clearer understanding of geography shaped Victorian outlooks. This in turn affected the work of poets and novelists, who play an important role in representing cultures. Future historians will look back on...
The Victorian period of literature roughly coincides with the years that Queen Victoria ruled Great Britain and its Empire (1837-1901). During this era, Britain was transformed from a predominantly rural, agricultural society into an urban, industrial one. New technologies like railroads and the steam printing press united Britons both ...
