The Victorians 1832-1901

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The Victorians 1832-1901

• Our deeds determine us , as much as we determine
  our deeds.
• ---George Eliot

2
Read/Note?

• Development of Language
• Literary History
• Alfred Lord Tennyson
• Verse, meter, tone, etc.
• The Lady of Shalott
• Ulysses
• In Memoriam
• Crossing the Bar

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The Brownings et al.

• Authors purpose vs. intended ambiguity (but
  then, isnt that the authors purpose?)
• Revisit Form and Meaning (p.771)
• Duchess (855) Porphyria (857) Sonnet 43
  (862)
• Bront? too (863)

4
Back in time to the Romantics

• Shelley Ozymandias (782) Ode to the West
  Wind (783)
• Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn (799)

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Closing

• What is the most significant change from the
  Romantic Period to the Victorian Period?
• What changes (from preceding periods) has carried
  over to or continued from the Romantic Period
  into the Victorian Period?