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The Victorian Age, Prose Poetry and Drama
The Victorian Age Prose Poetry and Drama Author:John Wilson Bowyer and John Lee Brooks The title is fairly self-explanatory, but I will give you an excerpt from the preface. "The aim of the editors of The Victorian Age has been to repesent the Victorian literature in its magnitude and variety against the social, historical, and intellectual background of the period. To this end we have considered the main trends of thought and o... more »pinion which governed the writers' lives and, to a considerable extent, their expression. In order to provide a complete view of the literature, we have reperesented all the major writers and the more significant minor figures. The various types of nonfictional prose, of poetry, and of drama are included, and a critical bibliographyt serves as a guide to the fiction. The list of authors is far, far too long to list here, but a few are Eliz. Barrett and Robert Browning, Thackeray, Emily Bronte, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Dante and Christina Rossetti, Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, William Morris, Swinburne, Robert Louis Stevenson, Oscar Wilde, Bernard Shaw, William Butler Yeats, etc. etc. etc. Every reader would find something to love about this book (and the price is right!)« less