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British Poetry Gowher Ahmad Naik, Lovely Professional University

Notes Unit 6: Major Literary Terms-VI

CONTENTS

Objectives
Introduction

6.1 Victorian Compromise

6.1.1 Faith and Progress
6.1.2 Victorian Period—Early and Late

6.2 Pre-Raphaelite Poetry

6.3 Art for Art’s Sake
6.4 Aestheticism

6.4.1 Aesthetic Literature
6.5 Imagist

6.6 Summary
6.7 Keywords

6.8 Review Questions

6.9 Further Readings

Objectives

After studying this unit, you will be able to:
• Know about the victorian compromise and victorian period—early and late
• Explain the term pre-raphaelite poetry and art for art’s sake
• Describe the term aestheticism.

Introduction

Exploring the patterns created by the formal elements of literature—alliteration, image, tone, and
metaphor, for example—helps us to understand more deeply a text’s meaning and the nuances that
enrich that meaning. This kind of formal close reading of the text is fundamental to any analysis of
literature. A literary theme is often not apparent early in every story. The theme is not the same as the
storyline or the subject. The theme is the meaning on a deeper, more abstract level.

6.1 Victorian Compromise

The particular situation, which saw prosperity and progress on the one hand, and poverty, ugliness
and injustice on the other, which opposed ethical conformism to corruption, moralism and
philanthropy to money and capitalistic greediness, and which separated private life from public

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