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Thomas Caryle
Philosopher and writer. He used to write about history and related to moral like "The French Revolution". His style is more concerned to the german influence, constructions of language and elements of exaggeration. -
Beginning
The Victorian Age started with the reign of Queen Victoria, even though this literary movement have been prepared many years before. Its features are:
-Writings of high moral
-Use of romantic techniques (Language, expressions, style)
-New stage of Gothic
-Themes related to science, politics, chistian faith.
-Subject of progress (steam machine, railway)
-Society poverty, insjustice, no moral) -
Alfred Tennyson
He wrote poetry. He wa simportant due to the use of romantic techinque, musicality and a macabre point of view. Between his poems are "Ulysses", "Locksley Hall" and "The aegle" -
John Stuart Mill
He wrote about politics, economy and theory. Moreover his recurrent subjects were equality of gender, freedom and look for happpiness in a justice world. Some of his work are The subjection of women", "A logic system" and "The ultilitarism" -
Elizabeth Bowing
She was one of the most important women writers, she is compared with the Brönte sisters, but she is even greater than them; due to her use of technique and writing style. She wrote blank verse novels and some of the are "Aurora Ligh" and "Sonnets from the Portuguese". -
Edward Fitzgerald
He is a methaphisical poet, with a new attitude concerned to the modernity, he was no a believer of the christian church nor any religion so his work is flood with scepticism. He wrote "Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám" -
William Makepeace
He wrote prose, it was concerned with humour and moral teaching.
Between his works he find "Vanity Fair", "Esmond" and "The rose and the ring". -
Charles Dickens
He´s the most important writers of the Victorian Age. He created his own imaginary and perfect wolrd, where most part of this stories were developed. Moreover there are some features that appeared in his books like the exaggeration of the human quaities, injustice, moral teaching and humour. Also he was a well-mannered guy that used the vulgar language mixed with the educated one. Some of his writings are "Oliver Twist" and the most popular "Christmas Tales". -
Robert Bowing
He was an anti-romantic poet concerned with the use of colloquia language, which was weird on that period, he also suggested the use of dramatic mologues and an imaginary that seems more of our time.
He used to write about the progress of eocnomy and machine, in some way obscure, but without complexity. He wrote "Dramatis Personae", "Sordello" and "Abt Vogler" -
Brönte sisterts
Charot, Emily and Anne Brönte were part of the most important writers of the age because of ther work and of course because there were no many women authors. The characteristics of their works were the tragic romance, with pure envy, playing with the dualism. Some of their works were "Jane Eyre", "Wuthering Heights" and "Agnes Grey" -
John Ruskin
A romantic writer that most of the time dealed with subjects of beauty in the common places, religion faith (attacting it rather than talking on its favour) and of course an humanictic ideology. He wrote many books some of them are Sesame and Lilies", The seven lamos of architecture" and "Uton his last". -
Arthur Hugh Clough
One of the poets concerned with modernity, this mean that he used to talk about a new attitude towards life, new expressions (no more poetic diction) and a renovate writing style. Between his works is "Amours de voyage" -
Matthew Arnold
He is a writer that appealed to their acient roots, this mean that used elements of the Anglo-saxon culture and style, also about the Greek art and life. Some of his writings are "Essays in criticism", "Culture and Anarchy" and "Dover Beach". -
Pre- Raphaelite
Literary movement, called Pre-Raphaelite that take the name from the painter Raphael. As its painting the literature dealed with christian faith, so it created an unique religion atmosphere, also it included medieval elements such as allegories and moral teachings. Some Followers are Rossetti G., Morris W. and Rossetti C. They keep the simplicity on their writings. -
Charles Dodgson
Also called Lewis Carrol, famous because of his book "Alice´s Adventures in Wonderland" due to it was written for childrens ant he imaginary and vivid pictures on it are completely out of the age, in some way revolutionary and the beginning of fiction. -
Freedom
Abolishion of slavery in Great Britain and in the Bitish colonies, located in the New World -
Samuel Butler
He worte prose, his current subjects were futuristic ones, with machines taking control of everything, also about the evolution of the mind with no more mysticism, moreover looking for the Utopia. He as many writers made critics related to the religion, marriage and false gods. He wrote "Musical bank" and "Book of machines". -
Algernon Charles Swinburne
He is one of the writers that still reminded the sense of freedom and keep his revolutionary spirits. So his work is influenced by the French poetry and musicality. He wrote "Poems and Ballads" -
Gerard Manley Hopkins
One of the most famous writer of the Victorian age. He was a priest so all his work is the result of that, We can expect religion elements, norman and roman influence like the vision of beauty found in the nature or common places. He used mainly 1st person and included dialect English words rather than Standard English, so played with the grammar structures to emphasise. Moreover he used an old English Fixed patternt of rhytm (5 stressed and 11 syllables), wrote The Wreck of the Deutschland.
