Victorian+Literature

Victorian Literature - Sam H


==The Victorian period was from 1837 to 1901 during the reign of Queen Victoria. During this time period novels were stories about people with difficult lives were rewarded for their hard work and perseverance and wrongdoers were always justly punished. Some examples of Victorian authors are William Thackeray, Emily Bronte, and Charles Dickens.==

==People of the Victorian age had an interest in both classical and mideval literature and this interest was apparent in much of their poetry. They liked poems about knights and heroics, and a good example of this is Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem Some other poets of the Victorian era were Elizabeth Barret Browning, Robert Browning, Matthew Arnold, and Gerard Manly Hopkins.==

==The Victorian's interest in older literature was not confined to their poetry, they also enjoyed old arabic and sanscrit literature. One of the most well known of these was The Rubaiyyat of Omar Khayyam, which was translated by Edward Fitzgerald. Another Victorian who translated a lot of foreign works was the explorer Richard Francis Burton, these works included The Arabian Nights, and Kama Sutra.==

Questions 1. [|What novel did Charles Dickens write in 1859?] 2. [|What does the literature of the Victorian era reflect?] 3. [|Name three poets of the Victorian era.] 4. [|Who was made the poet laureate in 1850?] 5. [|Name three authors of the Victorian era.]

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