• The influence of Romanticism on so-called Victorian poets: the arbitrary nature of the boundaries erected by literary historians (see Laurence Lerner)
• The dominance of the realist mode of literature and its impact even on poetry
• The move away from Romantic poetics and towards Modernism:
  • the use of the ‘dramatic monologue’ (Tennyson; Browning)
    • the wedge driven between poet and persona (Browning)
  • the formal innovations of the late nineteenth century (Hopkins)--we did not do this topic
  • Aestheticism / the Decadent movement / the Symbolists of the 1890's (Dante Gabriel Rossetti; Morris; Swinburne; Wilde; etc.)--we did not do this topic
• The impact of Darwinism on Victorian poets and the interrogation of the Romantic world view: science versus Christianity (Tennyson; Arnold; Hopkins)

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