From Dickens to Hardy

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Original publication date

1958; 1960 (reprinted with revisions) (reprinted with revisions)

People/Characters

Matthew Arnold; Charlotte Brontë; Emily Brontë; Robert Browning; Samuel Butler; Lord Byron (show all 39); Thomas Carlyle; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Charles Dickens; Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield; George Eliot; T. S. Eliot; Henry Fielding; Elizabeth Gaskell; George Gissing; Thomas Hardy; Gerard Manley Hopkins; Henry James; John Keats; Charles Kingsley; Rudyard Kipling; D. H. Lawrence; Edward Bulwer-Lytton; George Meredith; John Stuart Mill; William Morris (1834-1896); Walter Pater; Christina Rossetti; Dante Gabriel Rossetti; John Ruskin; Mark Rutherford; Percy Bysshe Shelley; Algernon Charles Swinburne; Alfred Lord Tennyson; William Makepeace Thackeray; Anthony Trollope; Oscar Wilde; William Wordsworth; William Butler Yeats

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GENERAL INTRODUCTION
In introducing this Guide to English Literature, it is as well to remember that this is the age of the Digest and the Headline, of the Comic and the Tabloid, of the Bestseller and the Month's Ma... (show all)sterpiece: an age when a 'deep-seated spiritual vulgarity... lies at the heart of our civilization' in the words of the novelist, L. H. Myers.

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NOTES ON THE VICTORIAN SCENE
G. D. Klingopulos
Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University College of South Wales, Cardiff
The centuries of history do not appear all equally relevant to us, and the impre... (show all)ssion of relevance itself tends to change.