From Idealism to Realism: A Comparative Analysis of Romantic and Victorian Poetic Visions in English Literature

This article explores a comparative exploration of the poetic visions from the Romantic to the Victorian era and examines a meticulous exploration of the stylistic progression from Romantic to Victorian poetic expression, employing a critical framework that examines both aesthetic form and socio-cultural context. The romantic periods flourishing in the late 18th and early 19th century are marked by prominence on emotion, imagination, and the beauty of nature. In contrast the Victorian period introduced a more complex irresolute poetic vision shaped by industrialization, scientific advancement, conflict and dilemma between religion and science. The famous Romantic poets such as William Wordsworth, Samuel Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley celebrate the beauty of nature, the power of imagination on the other contrary, Victorian poets like Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Matthew Arnold countered to the complexities of their time engaging with conflict, dilemma, faith, social justice and etc. This article also inquires into how romantic idealism of personal privilege and natural beauty adapts into the Victorian engagement with progress, responsibility. By exploring this comparative study this article reveals how poetic expression unrolls from the romantic celebration of idealism and nature to the Victorian focus on intellectual struggle and moral complexity.