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The Spirit of the Age (full title The Spirit of the Age: Or, Contemporary Portraits) is a collection of character sketches by the early 19th century English essayist, literary critic, and social commentator William Hazlitt, portraying 25 men, mostly British, whom he believed to represent significant trends in the thought, literature, and politics of his time.
The 19th century is considered by some the Golden Age of English Literature, especially for British novels. [1] In the Victorian era , the novel became the leading literary genre in English. English writing from this era reflects the major transformations in most aspects of English life, from scientific, economic, and technological advances to ...
"Richter" was the first of many essays extolling the virtues of German authors, who were then little-known to English readers; "State of German Literature" was published in October. [59] In Edinburgh, Carlyle made contact with several distinguished literary figures, including Edinburgh Review editor Francis Jeffrey , John Wilson of Blackwood's ...
This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:19th-century Black British writers and Category:19th-century British male writers and Category:19th-century British women writers The contents of these subcategories can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.
Lionel Stevenson wrote that "The most explosive impact in English literature during the nineteenth century is unquestionably Thomas Carlyle's. From about 1840 onward, no author of prose or poetry was immune from his influence." George Eliot's novel Middlemarch stands as a great milestone in the realist tradition. It is a primary example of ...
The Romantic movement in English literature of the early 19th century has its roots in 18th-century poetry, the Gothic novel and the novel of sensibility. [6] [7] This includes the pre-Romantic graveyard poets from the 1740s, whose works are characterized by gloomy meditations on mortality, "skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms". [8]
Charles John Huffam Dickens (/ ˈ d ɪ k ɪ n z / ⓘ; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic.He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. [1]
William Hazlitt (10 April 1778 – 18 September 1830) was an English essayist, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher.He is now considered one of the greatest critics and essayists in the history of the English language, [1] [2] placed in the company of Samuel Johnson and George Orwell.