Victorian Literature

“Mariana” (1830) If you’ve read or seen Measure for Measure, you may remember that Mariana is the woman whom the

Notes on Oscar Wilde’s “The Critic as Artist.” Wilde’s prose “describes” things in an ornate way. In this piece, he

Notes on Modern Painters (1843-60) “Painting . . . is nothing but a noble and expressive language….” And “It is

Notes on John Stuart Mill’s “What is Poetry?” (1833) Mill begins with the traditional view that “the object of poetry

Notes on Henry Mayhew’s London Labor and the London Poor Henry Mayhew led an interesting life, to say the least,