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Title: Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Traill, H. D. (Henry Duff), 1842-1900 Mann, James Saumarez, 1851-
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Publisher: New York : Putnam
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the influenceof the author of Poems and Ballads. Still it diverted atten-tion from the musical to the pictorial side of poetry, andso tended to substitute one form of imitative compositionfor another. But it would be hardly too much to say thatfor full twenty years after the Swinburnian note was firstsounded in the public ear, little else but its echo was to beheard in the strain of any younger singer. During these twodecades almost all original poetic impulse seems to have dis-appeared from among the literary youth of England. tiOi THE SUCCESSION OF THE DEMOCRACY. Decline oftlie Novel. In prose tiction, too, durin,^ the self-same period there wasa notable, and as it seems to suiue of those who now look backupon it, almost oalamitousi decline npon lower ideals. Thackeray died in l.S(i:j; and though Dickens was stillalive and went on writing for another seven years, all hisbest work was done. 0* Charles Reade and Charles King.sleymuch the same might be said. The two tinest romances of
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DANTE liAllKLEL ROSSKTTI.(From a plwiogrciili hij Ltvis Carroll.) the latter were written in the fifties ; the formers greatestnovel, The Cloister and the Hearth, in 1861. The last ofGeorge Eliots indisputable successes, Silas Marner, appearedin the same year, and there remained but one work which iseven arguably worthy of her genius, the brilliant but unequal Middlemarch, to be added to her record. Even WilkieCollins (1824-89), a novelist usually described as of the schoolof Dickens, though ho possessed few or none of the mastersgifts save a certain command of the weird and terrible, hadwoven the most successful of his mystery plots. When thefirst of the two decades had run little more than half its LITKRATUUF. : A liETROSFECT. lSir,~lHti5. 605 course, the next, ten or twelve years may be doscribed witlisubstantial accuracy as the period of the unbovuided vogue and))opularity of Anthony Trollope (l«15-82), a writer whofollowed Thackeray in the systematic continemcnt of hisstudies to

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