ENGLISH

The Victorian Age in Literature

By G.K. Chesterton

Book information

Publisher
House of Stratus
Year
2001
ISBN
075510031X, 9780755100316
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
165 kB (169301 bytes)
Edition
Paperback
Pages
85\0
Time added
2021-02-27 11:44:50

Description

‘I was born a Victorian; and sympathise not a little with the serious Victorian Spirit.’ In this engaging and extremely personal account G K Chesterton expounds his views on Victorian literature. Many of his opinions reflect the conventions of the age; however of the Victorian novel he refreshingly comments ‘it is an art in which women are quite beyond controversy’. Equally uncompromising about poets and poetry he does not hesitate to call Tennyson ‘a provincial Virgil’. This book is an important landmark in our understanding of an age which produced some of Britain’s most widely enjoyed literature.

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