English Literature / Unit 14 ENL 1347 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Medievalism in Victorian Verse
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The idea
Victorian poets turned repeatedly to the Middle Ages, as had the Romantics and the Gothic Revival: Tennyson's Camelot in "The Lady of Shalott" and Idylls of the King, the Pre-Raphaelites' medieval detail, and Morris's Defence of Guenevere and Arts and Crafts ideal.
In practice
Camelot, Guenevere, the craftsman.
Where people slip
Medievalism often criticizes the industrial present.
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