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Victorian Age – Social History of England

 Historic background

Literary Movements:
  1. Oxford movement
  2. Aesthetic Movement
  3. Pre-rapaelite Movement/Brotherhood
  4. Science-religion Conflict
Victorian poetry
Early Phase (1837-1848)
Mid (1848-1870)
Late (1870-1901)
Characteristics:
  1. Realism
  2. Focus on Simplicity
  3. Pessimism
  4. Science and Technology
  5. Existence of God
  6. Sense of Responsibility
  7. morality
  8. Interest in Medieval Myth and folkore
  9. Sentimentalism
  10. Humour
  11. dramatic Monologue
Poets
Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809- 1892)
Robert Browning (1812-1889)
matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
Arthur Hugh clough (1819-1861)
Pre-Rephalite Poets
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)
Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
William Morris (1834-1896)
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909)
Rudyard Kipling (1865 – 1935)
Short Stories
Oscar Wilde
  1. The Nightingale and the Rose
Posted in English Literature, NTA UGC NET English Literature

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