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The Victorian Age in Literature

By G. K. Chesterton

2019-12-12 19:32:02

‘I was born a Victorian, and sympathize 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 t ... Read more
‘I was born a Victorian, and sympathize 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 that produced some of Britain’s most widely enjoyed literature. Less

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File size123.285 KB
Print pages166
PublisherPublic Domain Books
Publication date2019-03-16
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1297837418
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G. K. Chesterton
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic. He has been referred to as the "prince of paradox". Time Magazi...

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