What was the relationship between Victorian poets and the Romantics ?
Correct answer: D. The Victorians were strongly influenced by the Romantics and experienced a sense of belatedness.
- A. The Romantics remained largely forgotten until their rediscovery by T. S. Eliot in the 1920s.
- B. The Victorians were disgusted by the immorality and narcissism of the Romantics.
- C. The Romantics were seen as gifted but crude artists belonging to a distant, semibarbarous age.
- D. The Victorians were strongly influenced by the Romantics and experienced a sense of belatedness.
Explanation
Victorian poets inherited much from Romantic poetry but often felt belated, writing after what they regarded as an earlier age of poetic greatness. They were therefore influenced by the Romantics rather than treating them as forgotten or merely crude.
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