The pre - Raphaelite poetry was a group of Painters, poets and critics.

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Name : payal Bambhaniya
Roll no. : 18
Sem. : 1st
Year : 2022
Paper no. : 105 (History of English
literature)
Topic : The Pre – Raphaelite school of
Poetry
Department of English, MKBU

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The Romantic Era and The Victorian Era
 The pre – Raphaelite school of poetry

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The pre - raphaelite poetry
• The pre raphaelite poetry is a Radical
poetry stream of Victorian age led by
Rossetti, Morris, and Swinburne.
• The beauty, art, science, loveliness were
the poetic lines of pre raphaelite poetry.
• This pre raphaelite movement was for
establishing the quality of poetry through ‘
pictorial effects.

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The Pre Raphaelite poetry
• The Pre Raphaelite was a group of
English Painters, poets and critics.
• It is founded in 1848 in England.
• Raphael was a painter and all the leaders
of the movement like
1. Dante Gabriel Rossetti
2. John Everett Millais and
3. William Holman Hunt
Founded a society.

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Characteristics of pre
Raphaelite poetry
• Break with Traditions
• Medievalism
• Devotion to Details
• Sensuousness
• Fleshly school of poetry
• Metre and music
• Truth to Nature

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Nature of the Movement
 In Art if Refers to the Pre – Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of
painters; associated with the Art critic John Ruskin.
 In literature it describes the poets who had some connections
with these artists and whose work shares some of the
characteristics of Pre Raphaelite art.
 The pre Raphaelites turned away from the Materialism of
Industrialised England. The most important development has
been done in the field of arts and science.

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Fleshly school of poetry
• Robert Buchanan called the Pre
Raphaelite poetry “ fleshly school of
poetry”.
• The fleshly school of poetry is a attack on
the Pre Raphaelite school.
• It is a essay writing in 1871.
• The fleshly school is the name given by
Robert Buchanan to a realistic, sensual
school of poets, to which Dante Gabriel
Rossetti, William Morris and Algernon
Charles Swinburne belonged.

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Conclusion
 Thus, we can say that The group continued to accept the concept of
history painting and mimesis, imitation of nature, as Central to the
purpose of art.
 Pre Raphaelites defined themselves as a Reform movement, created
a distinct name for their form of art , and published a periodical, the
Germ, to promote their ideas.
 The Germ, it is a thoughts towards nature in art and literature was a
periodical established by the pre raphaelite brotherhood.

9. z  The group’s debates were recorded in the Pre –
Raphaelite journal. The Brotherhood separated after
almost five year.
 Many pre – Raphaelite works can be read as
responses to the tention between internal and
external subject.
 In Tennyson, the artistic spirit becomes the subject of
allegories exploring the relationship between the
artistic mind and society.
 Here the internal element - the soul is acted upon by
the external world.

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