The Victorian "spirit", and 4 representative poems (50 pts.)
The Victorian spirit is the change from the idleness of the admiration of natural things to the movement and excitement of innovation and change itself. It has turned from the love makes the world go 'round ideal of the Romantics to a tell it like it is attitude. While the Victorian spirit moves to new explorations and energies from what was traditional - submission by women, dominance of men, and the focus on reaching an Ideal World through the beauty of nature - it maintains many aspects of the Romantic period that it is tryi…
