Historic background
Literary Movements:
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Oxford movement
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Aesthetic Movement
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Pre-rapaelite Movement/Brotherhood
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Science-religion Conflict
Victorian poetry
Early Phase (1837-1848)
Mid (1848-1870)
Late (1870-1901)
Characteristics:
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Realism
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Focus on Simplicity
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Pessimism
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Science and Technology
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Existence of God
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Sense of Responsibility
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morality
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Interest in Medieval Myth and folkore
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Sentimentalism
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Humour
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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
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The Nightingale and the Rose
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