Before delving into the Victorian age for probably the third time, the first since high school, I did my best to recall everything I knew about the Victorians. For some reason I could think of nothing else but a big, white, lacy doily. Try as I might, I couldn’t get past that obstinate doily blocking [...]
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Victorian Doilies
Posted in Victorian Age, tagged Arnold, Rossetti, Tennyson, Victorian Age, women on January 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Ordinary and the Extraordinary
Posted in Romantic Period, tagged Coleridge, Preface, Romantic, Wordsworth on January 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wordsworth says in his “Preface to Lyrical Ballads” that poetry is “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.” These feelings, he suggests, are best expressed in the “language really used by men.” The language of ”low and rustic” life, as he calls it, when used to describe incidents and situations from common life, and then thrown over with [...]
