Charles Dickens was the greatest and the most prolific English writer of the Victorian era. His novels and short stories are known for their social
“The secret of it all is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood of the moment–to put things down without deliberation–without worrying about their style–without waiting for a fit time or place.…
Il est des artistes qui suscitent une telle affection de la part de nos contemporains que même des années et des années après leur mort, ils restent une source d’inspiration inébranlable. C&r…
The great Victorian writer used baffling shorthand in his notes and documents. Academics and coders are toiling to decipher 10 manuscripts that survived.
Oscar Wilde is best known for his societal plays and novels. DIscover 10 of his best works in this list of free Oscar Wilde audio books.
Alphonse Daudet
What is the Difference Between Romantic and Victorian Poetry? Romantic Poetry revered and admired nature. Victorian Poetry was comparatively more realistic.
Famous Writers of the Victorian Era
How two ambitious men put their own interests ahead of the great writer and his family in an act of institutionally-sanctioned bodysnatching.
When You Are Old When you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face; And bending down beside the glowing bars, Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled And paced upon the mountains overhead And hid his face amid a crowd of stars. William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) published 1892 Years ago I went into a below ground restaurant that always had a line of people waiting to get a table. On a little ledge beside the stairs there were books that one could read to pass the time. I picked up Yeats' poetry, and came upon this poem.
Need a list of Victorian era writing prompts? Here are 21 to give you some ideas for your book!
The topic of Victorian poetry and its most famous exponent, Alfred Lord Tennyson, is not always the subject on everyone’s lips on a sunny weekend in August. But it is a topic of great fascination for all that, and a rewarding one for study.