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Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 4. Naturalism in England

Book from Project Gutenberg: Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 4. Naturalism in England · Common characteristics of the period -- National characteristics -- The political background -- The beginnings of Naturalism -- Strength and sincerity of the love of nature -- Rural life and its poetry -- Naturalistic Romanticism -- The Lake School's conception of liberty -- The Lake School's Oriental Romanticism -- Historical Naturalism -- All-embracing sensuousness -- The poetry of Irish opposition and revolt -- Erotic lyric poetry -- The British spirit of freedom -- Republican humanism -- Radical Naturalism -- Byron: the passionate personality -- Byron: his self-absorption -- Byron: the revolutionary spirit -- Comic and tragic realism -- Culmination of Naturalism -- Byron's death -- Conclusion.

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