The Victorian Temper: A Study in Literary Culture

achieved aesthetic Arnold art for art's art's sake artist aspired assert Balder beauty Browning Buchanan Byron Cambridge Apostles Carlyle century Charles Kingsley Christian creed criticism culture Dante Gabriel Rossetti death Decadent despair Dickens disillusioned Dobell dream early Victorian emotion England English essential ethical experience faith felt Festus fleshly Frederic Harrison Gay Science George Eliot Gilfillan Harrison heart human ideal imagination inspired intellectual intense John John Ruskin Keats Kingsley less literary literature living London Matthew Arnold Memoir ment metaphysical mind moral Morley nature never novel object Oscar Wilde passion Pater philosophy poem poet poetic poetry Pre-Raphaelites prose Quoted reality religion religious romantic Rossetti Ruskin satire seemed self-conscious sense Shelley social society sought soul Spasmodic School spirit strove struggle style suggested Swinburne Sydney Dobell symbol Tennyson thought tion torian truth ultimate values verse Victorian era Victorian literature vital vols Whistler whole Wilde York young