Poetry of The Victorian Age Succeeding the Romantic Age was the Victorian Age which began, according to well-esteemed scholars, in the year 1832 and ended in the year 1900. The Victorian literature inherited numerous qualities from the Romantic literature. Yet, the Victorian writings expanded to acknowledge its new ideas, its scientific achievements, and its unique Victorian attitudes. Throughout history, the work of poets and writers has been influenced by the changing society. The Romantic Age was affected …
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…realistic and less imaginative than the Romantic. Their satirical attacks on Victorian social pretension helped to resolve the social problems in a much better way than Romantic elusion to the past which did not solve its current problems. Victorian poetry also demonstrated a sign of incoherence and confusion, since the technology of the age had changed so rapidly. But in fact, Victorian poetic incoherence allowed individual poets free to develop their own voice and style.