A History of English Literature

against the age, as sometimes did Dickens. Tennyson periodically tried to make sense of it; Matthew Arnold criticized it; Mrs Ga ...

THE VICTORIAN AGE 261 Events and publications of 1837–80 The Age and its Sages Events Notable publications 1837 Thomas Carlyle, ...

262 8 · THE AGE AND ITS SAGES Events and publications of 1837–80 continued Events Notable publications 1856 James Anthony Froude ...

periodicals brought a regulated Romanticism into Victorian homes – via, for exam- ple, Jane Austen’s novels. In this simple sens ...

and for nonsense verse (not the same thing). But the modernists ridiculed the Victorians, who are still not always taken serious ...

Deism and scepticism had in the 18th century reduced both what educated Christians believed, and the strength with which they be ...

of means for ends. It is an attitude which prepared the way for the ‘world-historical’ man, the Hitlers and Stalins of the relig ...

John Ruskin The most Romantic prose of the Victorian sages is found in John Ruskin(1819– 1900). His eloquent reaction to social ...

Before falling silent, Ruskin wrote an enchanting autobiography,Praeterita,a lucid vision of the lost paradise of his childhood: ...

is to recompose his youthful visions and make us see – the Rhone, the Alps, a single tree. This calm after the storm is not ruff ...

of my own perpetual residence even unto death in my University. On the morning of the 23rd I left the Observatory. I have never ...

He then mentioned Coleridge, who ‘made trial of his age, and succeeded in interest- ing its genius in the cause of Catholic trut ...

Evolution challenged Christian ideas of the origin and end of mankind. Some, like Tennyson, modified their belief in the existen ...

Overview This survey of Victorian poetry to 1880 restricts itself to the major figures listed below, ignoring considerable minor ...

poems of Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Gerard Hopkins, Thomas Hardy and Edward Thomas. Thanks to the advance of natural scie ...

Melancholia, drunkenness, violence, opium and madness visited the Rectory, yet it produced three poets among its sons. Alfred, t ...

... My Arthur, whom I shall not see Till all my widowed race be run; Dear as the mother to the son, More than my brothers are to ...

whom we knew’. Tennyson said that the poem expressed his own ‘need of going forward and braving the struggle of life’ after the ...

‘The Lost Leader’, ‘Prospice’ and the Epilogue to Asolando, Browning’s attitudes are pungent, even crude. Browning needed his ma ...

The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits – on the French coast the light Gleams and is gon ...