Perhaps for this reason the Victorian Age is emphatically an age of realism rather than of romance,not the realism of Zola and Ibsen, but a deeper realism which strives to tell the whole truth, showing moral and physical diseases as they are, but holding up health and hope as the normal conditions of humanity.

The Victorian age was thought of as the beginning of a wonderful new era, in which, among the nations, England was first and the rest nowhere.

Point out a likeness between the Brut and the work of a Victorian poet.

Few English prose works have had more influence on the poetry of the Victorian age.

His Robert Browning (1903), Varied Types (1903), Heretics (1905), George Bernard Shaw (1909), and The Victorian Age in Literature (1913) keep most readers actively thinking.

It used to be the fashion in mid Victorian melodramas to give each act a more or less alluring title of its own.

E FIRST Introduction The Victorian era has ceased to be a thing of yesterday; it has become history; and the fixed look of age, no longer contemporary in character, which now grades the period, grades also the once living material which went to its making.

Some while ago, before Mr. Strachey had made the name of Victoria to resound as triumphantly as it does now, a friend asked why I should trouble to resuscitate these Victorian remains.

My answer is because I myself am Victorian, and because the Victorianism to which I belong is now passing so rapidly into history, henceforth to present to the world a colder aspect than that which endears it to my own mind.

Just at this moment the Victorian age has that bloom upon itautumnal, not spring-likewhich, in the nature of things, cannot last.

AgoThe Wolds in AutumnBy the StreamWildfowlMigration of BirdsLapwingsWinter VisitantsThunderstormsGlow-WormsA Brilliant MeteorNight on the HillsThe "Blowing-Stone"Christmas Day on the CotswoldsA Solar HaloHamlet FestivitiesTom Peregrine BaffledThe Mummers PlayThe Victorian EraThe True Days of "Merrie England"Carpe Diem.

The lawyers only came to their own at the close of the great Victorian duet of Disraeli and Gladstone, the last of the political gentlemen adventurers.

The sort of "patriotic" self-flattery that prevailed in the Victorian age, and which is so closely akin to contemporary German follies, fostered and cultivated this sweet delusion.

JOHNSON AND HIS TIME VII THE ROMANTIC REVIVAL VIII THE VICTORIAN AGE IX THE NOVEL X THE PRESENT AGE BIBLIOGRAPHY CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE INDEX ENGLISH LITERATURE: MODERN CHAPTER

Unobserved, they received, and made their own preparations for utilising, the legacy of the mid-Victorian novelmoral thesis, plot, underplot, set characters, descriptive machinery, landscape colouring, copious phraseology, Herculean proportions, and the rest of the cumbrous and grandiose paraphernalia of Chuzzlewit, Pendennis, and Middlemarch.

Gissing was encumbered at every step by the giant's robe of mid-Victorian fiction.

SEE SMITH, SAMUEL, ed. RYAN, MONICA D. Disraeli; a picture of the Victorian Age.

The times of Tennyson; English Victorian poetry as it affected America.

SEE Millard, Nellie D. KING, CAROLINE B. Victorian cakes.

The Interpretation of Victorian literature.

R122305, 10Dec53, William D. Gordon (A) & Ethelyn Best Lockwood (W) GORMAN, HERBERT S. A Victorian American, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

LEE, ROBERT W. Victorian glass: specialties of the nineteenth century.

LEE, RUTH WEBB. Victorian glass: specialties of the nineteenth century.

A Guide to Victorian antiques; with notes on the early nineteenth century.

The interior has been remodelled in accordance with early Victorian ideas of ecclesiastical propriety.