Description Of Victorian Age

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By the middle Victorian period, when Browning wrote "Cleon" (1855) and "Tithonus" was revised and finally published (1860), the situation had changed to some extent. Tariff and labor reforms had helped bring back general prosperity and contentment. However, controversy was not dead; it had merely shifted from social and economic condidtions to religion. The Utilitarians, reflecting on what they considered to be the basic human needs, decided that a society that listened to the voice of reason had no need to believe in religion. The utilitarian views distressed the religious conservatives, who argued that the Victorian Age, with its excesses and social problems, was in dire need of the stability and comfort offered by traditional Christianity.
In literature and the other arts, the Victorians attempted to combine Romantic emphases upon self, emotion, and imagination with Neoclassical ones upon the public role of art and a corollary responsibility of the artist. More ...

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