ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Poetry was one of the most popular genres of the Victorian period. The Romantic poets, particularly William Wordsworth (who lived through the beginning of the period, dying in 1850) were revered and widely quoted.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Victorians’ demand for affordable music in the early to mid nineteenth century promoted the rise of popular genres such as oratorio, ballads, and music hall.

Detailed explanation-3: -The realistic Victorian novels became popular because it was the first time characters in a novel were similar and connected to the people of the middle class. Newspapers, Press, and Publishing: One very important source of information on the realistic novel’s popularity are the newspapers that wrote about them.

Detailed explanation-4: -A great deal of Victorian literature was first published in a serial form. This maintained the writer in constant contact with his public. He was obliged to maintain the interest of his story gripping because one boring instalment would cause the public not to buy that periodical any longer.

Detailed explanation-5: -Novelist Thomas Hardy wrote in the later decades of the Victorian era. His most notable works include Under the Greenwood Tree (1872), Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891), and Jude the Obscure (1895).