He was also a great literary as well as social critic. 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.
In his early work Tennyson brought an exquisite lyric gift to late Romantic subject matter. Carlyle was the dominant figure of the Victorian period. This book continues the story of English literature through most of the Victorian period — a period that in religion and politics, science and technology, social life and its physical environment, witnessed the often painful development of modern England, A population-explosion, hurried progress in education, and a massive increase in the reading public were met by a literary output of unprecedented variety and … In fact it were the romantic elements—unevenness, seriousness of tone, concreteness and particularity—which constitute the underlying unity of the prose of the early Victorian period. The Victorian age is a great era of prose-writing Alexander Smith, Sir Arthur Helps, A.K.H.
He is both a great artist as well as a great ethical teacher.
In order to achieve this he makes use of strange ‘tricks’—the use of capital initials, the dropping of conjunctions, pronouns, verbs, the quaint conversion of any noun into a verb, free use of foreign words or literal English translations of foreign words.
Only with the publication of Dramatis Personae (1864) did Robert Browning achieve the sort of fame that Tennyson had enjoyed for more than 20 years. Other Victorian Prose: The growth of periodical literature made way for other more instructional ‘non-fictional prose.’ These pieces by writers such as Thomas Carlyle, John Stuart Mill, John Ruskin, and Sarah Stickney Ellis reflect social struggle and often propose alternative options to current situations. fOther Victorian Prose: The growth of periodical literature made way for other more instructional ‘non-fictional prose.’ These pieces by writers such as Thomas Carlyle, John Stuart Mill, John Ruskin, and Sarah Stickney Ellis reflect social struggle and often propose alternative options to current situations. 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.
John Henry Newman was a poet, novelist, and theologian who wrote many of the tracts, published as Tracts for the Times (1833–41), that promoted the Oxford movement, which sought to reassert the Roman Catholic identity of the Church of England. Mill and agnostic scientists like Darwin, Spencer, Huxley, etc.
The result is a poetry that, for all its debt to Keats, anticipates the French Symbolists of the 1880s.
In his early work Tennyson brought an exquisite lyric gift to late Romantic subject matter. Carlyle was the dominant figure of the Victorian period. This book continues the story of English literature through most of the Victorian period — a period that in religion and politics, science and technology, social life and its physical environment, witnessed the often painful development of modern England, A population-explosion, hurried progress in education, and a massive increase in the reading public were met by a literary output of unprecedented variety and … In fact it were the romantic elements—unevenness, seriousness of tone, concreteness and particularity—which constitute the underlying unity of the prose of the early Victorian period. The Victorian age is a great era of prose-writing Alexander Smith, Sir Arthur Helps, A.K.H.
He is both a great artist as well as a great ethical teacher.
In order to achieve this he makes use of strange ‘tricks’—the use of capital initials, the dropping of conjunctions, pronouns, verbs, the quaint conversion of any noun into a verb, free use of foreign words or literal English translations of foreign words.
Only with the publication of Dramatis Personae (1864) did Robert Browning achieve the sort of fame that Tennyson had enjoyed for more than 20 years. Other Victorian Prose: The growth of periodical literature made way for other more instructional ‘non-fictional prose.’ These pieces by writers such as Thomas Carlyle, John Stuart Mill, John Ruskin, and Sarah Stickney Ellis reflect social struggle and often propose alternative options to current situations. fOther Victorian Prose: The growth of periodical literature made way for other more instructional ‘non-fictional prose.’ These pieces by writers such as Thomas Carlyle, John Stuart Mill, John Ruskin, and Sarah Stickney Ellis reflect social struggle and often propose alternative options to current situations. 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.
John Henry Newman was a poet, novelist, and theologian who wrote many of the tracts, published as Tracts for the Times (1833–41), that promoted the Oxford movement, which sought to reassert the Roman Catholic identity of the Church of England. Mill and agnostic scientists like Darwin, Spencer, Huxley, etc.
The result is a poetry that, for all its debt to Keats, anticipates the French Symbolists of the 1880s.