As a part of presentation M.A sem 1 on paper history of English topic about comparative study of Romantic age and victorian age

1. Comparative Study of
Romantic
age and Victorian age
Presented by Asha Rathod
Paper No : 105 History of English
Literature
Submitted to Department of English

2. 01
Comparison Between romantic age
and Victorian age
TABLE OF CONTENTS
02
03
Emotions vs Reality
04
Poetry and Prose
Poetry comparison

3. Romantic age
➔ First half of the nineteenth century ,Generally recorded as a
romantic period in english literature
➔ Normally romantic age or Romanticism taken place from the
1770s to 1830s .
➔ It is a characterized by emotional language and praise of
nature.
➔ During this time common people start reading Bible .
➔ William wordsworth ,samuel coleridge , Robert
southey,Byron,shelley are consider a romantic poets .

4. —William wordsworth
"Like clouds that rake, the mountain
summits or waves that own no curbing
hand, how fast has brother followed
brother,from sunshine to sunless land".

5. Victorian age
➔ Came in existence during the religion of queen victoria.(1837-1901).
➔ Rather than praising nature,they talks about social concerns such as
poverty.
➔ But similarity between both the age are reaction to cultural changes.
➔ When queen victoria came on throne.in 1837. We found sun of
English literature fainted of after coluridge, Shelley, Byron and Scott.
➔ William j. Long in his book mentioned one quote of Wordsworth,
written in 1835, which talks about emptiness in literature in the
beginning of victorian period.

6. COMPARISON between romANTIC AGE AND VICTORIAN AGE
❏ Use of Language
➔ Romantic literature is emotionally expressive . It often
uses phrases such as “oh…!” ,”Alas!” to give the
impression of sudden onrush of feelings
➔ But the victorian poets or writers are not using such
language because they want to show the world as it
really was. So they use modern expressions and
language. And make less use of flowery metaphors and
images

7. John Keats
quotes
Robert Browning
Romantic
age
Victorian
age

9. Emotions vs Reality
➢ Romantic writers are known for emotional outbursts, as
William Wordsworth called it,
"The spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings".
➢ Romantic poetry is majority known for its sudden
expression of joy, sadness,and excitement.
➢ Victorian literature,take literature as deliberately craft
and they used careful structure and language. It's we see
in Browning' s poem, ' my last Duchess'. The poem uses
irony.so that, it will became hard to understand for their
long and complicated plot.such like Jude the obscure

10. Poetry and Prose
➔ We found romantic age reflected the glory of poetry.we
found it in the poetry of Scott, Wordsworth, Coleridge,
Byron, Shelley, Keats,moore and southey.
➔ Southey and Coleridge also wrote prose,more than
poetry.mainly they write prose for money. Willam j.
Long write in his book that southey states that,
"What would otherwise have been better written in
prose".
➔ Victorian era mainly known as age of prose

11. ★ Poetry Comparison

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you