Hello friends, here is my presentation on the topic comparison between Romantics and Victorians. From paper no. 105(A) History of English Literature from 1350 to 1900.

1. Name : Latta Baraiya
Year : 2020-2022
Roll no. : 12
Sem : 1
Enrollment no. : 3069206420200003
Topic : Comparison between Romantics & Victorians
Paper : History of English Literature
Email id : lattabaraiya1204@gmail.com
Submitted to : S. B. Gardi Department of English
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University

2. ◆Romantic Age◆
❖ Important movements:
❖ Industrial revolution
❖ American independence
❖ French revolution
❖ The term “Romantic” derives from old French “Romans”
❖ Love toward nature

3. Why this age come ?
❖ Cause of 18th century [neo-classical]
❖ Age of prose & reason
❖ Main feature of Romantic age was a reaction
against the eighteenth century and the age of
reason
❖ Romanticism developded an alternative aesthetic of
freedom from the formal rules of Neoclassicism

4. “Come forth into
the light of
things, let nature
be your teacher”
(William
Wordsworth)
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5. ◆Victorian Age◆
● The bright, sunny,
cheerful
Romanticism ended
and a new sun rose
that did not lighten
up the day but threw
light on the realities
of life
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6. ❖ Name of queen Victoria
❖ This age was an age of witnessed of rapid and
sweeping changes
❖ The complexity of social forces
❖ It change the thinking patterns of people
❖ This era offers to its citizens, not all beautiful
things but all that was necessary to give the
century a new turn

7. Comparison between Romantics & Victorians
Romanticism
● Time 1798 to 1837
● Didn't have a king
or queen
● Influenced by
nature
Victorians
● Time 1837 to 1901
● Have queen victoria
● Influenced by
industrial revolution

8. ● Focused on literature
of art
● Popular form
POETRY
● Main elements of
works: imaginative,
fictitious, fabulous,
extravagant, fanciful,
bizarre, exaggerated,
chimerical
● Focused on
science&technology
● Popular form
DRAMA
● Main elements of
works: faith &
doubt,motality &
hypocrisy, idealism &
materialism, progress
& decline, splendour
& squalor

9. ● Main themes:
Imagination, Emotions,
Nature
● Writers : William
Black, Robert Burns,
William Wordsworth,
S. T. Coleridge, Walter
Scott, Robert Southey,
Charles Lamb
● Main themes: Science
and technology,
Democracy
● Writers: Alfred Lord
Tennyson, Robert
Browning, Rudyard
Kipling, Thomas
Hardy, Oscar Wilde,
D. G. Rossetti,
Matthew Arnold

10. Citation
❖ Benin, Nikola. “Romanticism .” Researchgate, Dec.
2019.
❖ Jaoolakar, Dr. Vikas, and Poonam Matkar.
“Victorian Age and Literature.” Journal of
Literature, Languages and Linguistics, vol. 2, 2016.
❖ Suma, H. P. “Victorian Literature and the Changing
Social Structure”, vol. 7, 2019, Accessed 10 Feb.
2021.