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Inerrancy about one's own powers is not a mark of the Victorian poets, nor even is a simple prudence about not over-reaching or over-archaizing. The Victorian poetaster over 'weens'.
The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse (1987)
[T]o travesty or to calumniate the Victorians is still such a cheap holiday.
The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse (1987)
Taste, discretion, and decision have, one likes to think, been exercised so as to manifest the variety of an age's poems, the felicitous heterogeneity, the diverting diversity, and the buoyant resistance which a world of poems will always put up even to the best literary historian's summary justice.
The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse (1987)
Great Britain was Victorian for two-thirds of a century. Things changed and counterchanged; even the Queen often proved a surprise, though it may be thought that she was a surprise like a Browning character, by being even more herself than one would ever have anticipated.
The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse (1987)