The Characteristics Of Victorian Realism And The Victorian Era

The Victorian Era was an era of British history that started from Queen Victoria 's inauguration from June 20 1837 to her death on January 22 1901. During Victorian Britain, human development and industrialization from the industrial revolution skyrocketed, unleashing new perspectives that people had never thought about before. With the development of new industries and lifestyles, many people stopped looking towards nature and started being occupied by the hard work industrial city life held. Romanticism was the literature that looked upon nature and arts as opposed to municipal lifestyles and civic constrictions. It looked upon things with imagination and expression more than anything else. Now, the Romantic period took place between the late 18th century and 1850, this is somewhat odd as two different Eras are overlapping each other instead of being sequential.

However, even though these Eras slightly overlap with each other, this does not stop their philosophies from contrasting heavily. An example of disparity is Romanticism 's blatant use of idealism, such as its inclinations of being drawn to nature and its wild and different experiences. Victorianism however, uses realism. Victorian realists believed the the world was dark and gritty, and nature is useless as a means of fighting real world problems they had

Lord Tennyson lived through most of the Victorian Era, having passed away only nine years before the passing of Queen Victoria. His numerous amount of works, as well as his themes aided him in being one of the most popular Victorian Era Poets that has ever lived, much of his phrases has become common in English, such as "Tis better to have loved and lossed than to never have lossed at all". Many of his themes, complex stories (complicated plots were often common of Victorian Literature) and messages he was trying to convey where many of the reasons he and still his