Victorian literature is characterized by its abundance in the field of non-fictional prose, the range of variety of which is baffling. Non-fictional prose writers of this period explore a fine art of living while simultaneously carrying the message of immediate public concern. They focused on society while also encompassing withinContinue Reading
Victorian poetry carried forward the previous Romantic tradition and also reacted against it. These two periods have a lot in common: skepticism, interest in everything mysterious, distrust of organized religion. On the other hand, Victorian poets reacted against what they felt was the soppy, flighty, and saccharine sweet poetry ofContinue Reading
The Romantic Movement in English poetry is generally described as a “Return to Nature.” But Nature for the Romantics were completely different from the notion held by Augustan or neo-classical authors. When Alexander Pope instructs… “First follow Nature, and your judgment frame/By her just standard which is still the same:”-Continue Reading
Lamb, Hazlitt, and De Quincey were the three major essayists of the Romantic period. Like the poets, these essayists were personal and subjective; their essays are often candidly autobiographical, reminiscent, and self-analytic; and when the writers treated other matters than themselves, they tended to do so impressionistically, so that theContinue Reading
The publication in 1798 of Lyrical Ballads, with many of the finest poems by Wordsworth and Coleridge, is often held to mark the start of the English Romantic movement. Lyrical Ballads differs in marked ways from Wordsworth’s early poetry: notably the uncompromising simplicity of much of the language, the strongContinue Reading
Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798 and generally considered to have marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature. The immediate effect on critics was modest, but it became and remainsContinue Reading
Romanticism is a movement in art and literature in the eighteenth and nineteenth century in revolt against the neo-classicism of the previous centuries. It is the direct outcome of French Revolution. The French Revolution directly inspired by Rousseauism, had its influence on the Romantic Poets, both in its revolutionary idealsContinue Reading
In the development of the English novel in the eighteenth century, Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding are the two most influential figures. Richardson is best known for his three epistolary* (in the form of letters) novels: Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded (1740), Clarissa: Or, the History of a Young Lady (1748)Continue Reading
Birth of the “Novel”, with its associations of newness and originality, occurs in the eighteenth century. Before that there had been forms of long and continuous narrative prose, but it was only in the 1720s that we begin to see the emergence of a recognisable “Novel” form, i.e, concerned withContinue Reading
The comedy of manners is a genre of comedy that flourished on the English stage during the Restoration period. Plays of this type are typically set in the world of the upper class, and ridicule the pretensions of those who consider themselves socially superior, deflating them with satire. With wittyContinue Reading
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