Absolutism Vs Romanticism

The Romantic period and Victorian period were two influential and crucial eras in history to British literature. Many of the writers and poets were influenced greatly by the changing society around them. During both of these time periods society was dramatically changing and there was innovation everywhere, new advances in technology were being made. The changing world caused an uproar of prolific writers and poets. Some of these profound poets and writers include William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelly, Mary Shelly, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning and Christina Rossetti. A large amount of these writers and poets were inspired about the changes of the world that were happening around them during their time and wrote about them in their work. Literature from the Victorian period was particularly similar to those of the Romantic period. Many of the Victorian writers were inspired by the Romantic writers before them, which caused for there to be a similarity in Victorian and Romantic literature. In this paper, I will be discussing how Victorian writers were influenced by the Romantic writers before their time and how they utilized the Romantic periods themes and values and turned them into Victorian ideals in their writing. I will also be analyzing the important common themes in Mary Shelly’s novel “Frankenstein” and Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem “Mariana” and explain how their corresponding time period influenced and molded their
Although literature from both time periods were very similar the themes were treated differently due to the time period they were written in. Mary Shelly’s Romantic novel “Frankenstein” and Alfred Lord Tennyson’s Victorian poem “Mariana”, both contain similar themes such as nature and isolation but were written in a way that connects to their corresponding time