V. The Victorian Age (ca. 1837-1914)
Representative works including:

  • works by Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
  • from “The Idea of a University”
    —John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801-1890)
  • from On Liberty —John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
  • “You Ask Me, Why, Though I'll at Ease,” “Morte d’Arthur,”
    “Locksley Hall,” from “In Memoriam,” and from “Idylls of the King”
    —Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
  • works by John Ruskin (1819-1900)
  • works by Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)


Sites That You May Find Useful

The Victorian Web Overview
Victorian Literature Overview
Links to Other Victorian Sites
TIMELINE
Romantic Chronology (Home Page)
Literature in Great Britain, the Victorians and their Eighteenth-
and Nineteenth-Century Precursors: A Chronology
3044 Syllabus


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