"I was born a Victorian; and sympathise not a little with the serious Victorian Spirit." In this engaging and extremely personal account G K Chesterton expounds his views on Victorian literature. Many of his opinions reflect the conventions of the age; however of the Victorian novel he refreshingly comments "it is an art in which women are quite beyond controversy". Equally uncompromising about poets and poetry he does not hesitate to call Tennyson "a provincial Virgil". This book is an important landmark in our understanding of an age which produced some of Britain's most widely enjoyed literature.
- ISBN10 1374872725
- ISBN13 9781374872721
- Publish Date 24 May 2017 (first published September 1966)
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint Pinnacle Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 120
- Language English