Nature of victorian society with referance to its legislative reforms
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THE VICTORIAN AGE: SOCIETY, CULTURE AND ACHIEVEMENTS
The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 20
June 1837 until her death, on 22 January 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity,
refined sensibilities and national self-confidence for Britain.
Salient features of the Victorian age.
Introduction
The modern period of progress and unrest when Victoria become queen in 1837,
English literature seemed to have entered upon a period of lean years, in marked contrast with
the poetic fruitfulness of the romantic age which we have just studied. Coleridge, Shelley,
Keats Byron and scot had passed away and it seemed as if there were no writers in England to
fill their place. Words worth had written in 1835, “Like clouds that rake the mountain
summits or waves that own no Curbing hand. How fast has brother followed brother, from
sunshine to the sunless land I”
In these lines is reflected the sorrowful spirit of a literary man of the early nineteenth
century who remembered the glory that had passed away from the earth. But the leanness of
their first year is more apparent than real. Keats and Shelley were dead, it is true but already
there had appeared three disciples of these poets who were destined to be far more widely
read then were their masters Tennyson had been publishing poetry since 1827 his first poems
appearing almost simultaneously with the list work of Byron Shelley and Keats. Moreover
even as romanticism seemed passing away, a group of great prose writers – Dickens,
Thackeray, Carlyle and Ruskin – had already begun to proclaim the literary glory of a new
age which now seems to rank only just below the Elizabethan and the romantic periods.
The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 20
June 1837 until her death, on 22 January 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity,
refined sensibilities and national self-confidence for Britain.
Salient features of the Victorian age.
Introduction
The modern period of progress and unrest when Victoria become queen in 1837,
English literature seemed to have entered upon a period of lean years, in marked contrast with
the poetic fruitfulness of the romantic age which we have just studied. Coleridge, Shelley,
Keats Byron and scot had passed away and it seemed as if there were no writers in England to
fill their place. Words worth had written in 1835, “Like clouds that rake the mountain
summits or waves that own no Curbing hand. How fast has brother followed brother, from
sunshine to the sunless land I”
In these lines is reflected the sorrowful spirit of a literary man of the early nineteenth
century who remembered the glory that had passed away from the earth. But the leanness of
their first year is more apparent than real. Keats and Shelley were dead, it is true but already
there had appeared three disciples of these poets who were destined to be far more widely
read then were their masters Tennyson had been publishing poetry since 1827 his first poems
appearing almost simultaneously with the list work of Byron Shelley and Keats. Moreover
even as romanticism seemed passing away, a group of great prose writers – Dickens,
Thackeray, Carlyle and Ruskin – had already begun to proclaim the literary glory of a new
age which now seems to rank only just below the Elizabethan and the romantic periods.
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