On this level the Victorian enjoyment of art was sincere, and curiously ...
On this level the Victorian enjoyment of art was sincere, and curiously uniform.
On the whole, what Lord Lansdowne liked, the people liked, much as Penny Readings preferred the authors who Queen Victoria read. How often one has seen this old community of tastes on the bookshelf of a cottage parlour or a country inn: the Works of Tennyson, theWorks of Longfellow; some Bulwer, some Macaulay, some Victor Hugo; Dickens, and Motley's Dutch Republic; surmounted by a print of the Shepherd's Mourner or the Meeting of Wellington and Blucher.
But who ever saw the Poems of Rossetti or a Whistler Nocturne? Lord Morley, wishing to make clear some social stratification, once divided the public into those who had a Tennyson at home and those who had not.
With Enoch Urden in 1863 the Laureate had captured the widest popularity that any great English poet has ever enjoyed.
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Only a Historical Index to his works could make clear at how many points he touched the passing interests of the day. It might be Evolution or Personal Immort
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The Pre-Raphaelites had forced their world to look at pictures, and their originals, with a new eye: Swinburne had set the English muse dancing to
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