G.K. Chesterton
â€˜I was born a Victorian; and sympathise not a little with the serious Victorian Spirit.â€™ 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 â€˜it is an art in which women are quite beyond controversyâ€™. Equally uncompromising about poets and poetry he does not hesitate to call Tennyson â€˜a provincial Virgilâ€™. This book is an important landmark in our understanding of an age which produced some of Britainâ€™s most widely enjoyed literature.
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The Victorian Age in Literature