The Everyman Book of Victorian Verse: The Pre-Raphaelites to the Nineties

Rejecting convention, the bohemian Pre-Raphaelites look back to the art of Renaissance and medieval Europe for an ideal of beauty. Thomas Hardy powerfully evokes the losses of the modern world; Rudyard Kipling celebrates the Empire; Oscar Wilde recalls his imprisonment and exile. This edition carefully reconstructs the literary milieu into which modernism was born.

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