Write an essay on the
Non-Fictional Prose that enriched Victorian Literature.
Victorian literature is
characterized by its abundance in the field of non-fictional prose, the range
of variety of which is baffling. Non-fictional prose writers of this period
explore a fine art of living while simultaneously carrying the message of
immediate public concern. They focused on society while also encompassing
within its realm, theology, histories, scientific endeavors, biographies,
ethical and philosophical treatises, literary and art criticisms and so on.
Thomas Carlyle is
undoubtedly one of the most important literary figures of the Victorian Age.
His major historical works are The French Revolution, a series of
vivid word-pictures full of audacity and color, rather than sober
history; Oliver Cromwell's Letter's and Speeches, a huge effort
relieved from tedium only by Carlyle's volcanic methods; the genial and
humane Life of John Sterling and The History of
Frederich II of Prussia which was enormous in scale and heavy with
detail. His works dealing with contemporary events include Chartism, Past
and Present and Latter-day Pamphlets. The series of
lectures that he delivered in 1837 was published as On heroes, Hero
Worship and the Heroic in History. Carlyle's method was essentially
biographical and his aim was to make History alive by means of his masculine
imagination and pithy style.
After Carlyle the next
great Victorian non-fictional prose writer is John Ruskin who wrote remarkably
on art and the social and economic questions of his time in a style that was
delicate, graceful and almost lyrical. His Modern Painters was
a defence of Turner's paintings whereas The Stones of Venice, which
is his masterpiece in thought and style, was written in appraisal of the Gothic
style of Art. Ruskin's Unto This Last and Munera
Pulveris comprises of a series of articles on political economy. His
other important works are Sesame and Lilies and Two
Paths which are a course of lectures and The Crown of Wild
Olives which comprises of a series of addresses..............................
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