A S L 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 44: Ford Madox Brown, The Illustrated London News, Cornhill Magazine
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Session 8: 19th century poetry/prose: belated romantics, victorian poetry and the victorian era (1837-1901) Coincides with very long reign queen victoria. Victorians felt that they couldn"t match the achievement of the romantics. Harold bloom, the breaking of form , in deconstruction and criticism, ed. Bloom argued that victorian poets suffered from a inferiority complex. Victorian poets as belated poets , suffering from a kind of inferiority complex: poetic self-esteem is wounded by its realization of such belatedness (13) Recognized that their poetry could not measure up with the works of the romantics everything amazing was already done in poetry, could not achieve sth. new trying desperately to measure up. Rewrite romaic poems; sense of distance and belatedness. Key themes of romantics reappear: powers of human imagination, relationship between human self and the world, interest in intense psychological states. Continued to think of poetry as a solitary activity.
