Illustration from Moby Dick (c. 1851): Captain Ahab and Tashtego sighting the white whale (Moby Dick)
Mary Evans Picture Library
AQA (A) Literature: ‘Victorian literature’
Imagine it is the year 1820. You are an English reviewer, regularly writing for sophisticated literary publications about poetry, novels and plays. The literary heritage that you know and value derives from the Latin and Greek classics and the British masters of the Renaissance and Restoration, from Shakespeare to Milton, Dryden and Pope. These latter names combine to form an English tradition of which you are immensely proud.
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