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- Author: Frederic Harrison
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- ISBN-10: 1515159175
- ISBN-13: 9781515159179
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 0.5 cm, softcover
- Language: English
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That which in England is conveniently described as the Victorian Age of literature has a character of its own, at once brilliant, diverse, and complex. It is an age peculiarly difficult to label in a phrase; but its copious and versatile gifts will make it memorable in the history of modern civilisation. The Victorian Age, it is true, has no Shakespeare or Milton, no Bacon or Hume, no Fielding or Scott-no supreme master in poetry, philosophy, or romance, whose work is incorporated with the thought of the world, who is destined to form epochs and to endure for centuries. Its genius is more scientific than literary, more historical than dramatic, greater in discovery than in abstract thought.
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- Author: Frederic Harrison
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- ISBN-10: 1515159175
- ISBN-13: 9781515159179
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 0.5 cm, softcover
- Language: English English
That which in England is conveniently described as the Victorian Age of literature has a character of its own, at once brilliant, diverse, and complex. It is an age peculiarly difficult to label in a phrase; but its copious and versatile gifts will make it memorable in the history of modern civilisation. The Victorian Age, it is true, has no Shakespeare or Milton, no Bacon or Hume, no Fielding or Scott-no supreme master in poetry, philosophy, or romance, whose work is incorporated with the thought of the world, who is destined to form epochs and to endure for centuries. Its genius is more scientific than literary, more historical than dramatic, greater in discovery than in abstract thought.
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