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This scholarly work explores the connections between Romantic and Victorian literature, highlighting the influences and continuities between the two movements. The author, a distinguished expert in Romanticism, provides insightful analysis and comparisons of key authors from both periods, revealing how their themes and styles intersect. The examination offers a deeper understanding of the evolution of literary thought and the enduring impact of Romantic ideals on Victorian writers.

This scholarly work explores the connections between Romantic and Victorian literature, highlighting the influences and continuities between these two significant literary movements. The author, a respected expert in Romanticism, delves into the thematic and stylistic elements that link the works of key authors from both periods, providing deep insights into their evolution and impact on subsequent literature. The examination offers a rich understanding of how these literary traditions intersect and shape cultural narratives.

Revolutionary thinking at the end of the Eighteenth century prompted major English writers to probe the riddle of human consciousness and the ways in which it might differ from 'Being' in a divine or universal sense. In the first of two studies, John Beer traces this question in writings by Blake, Coleridge and Wordsworth, and the impact of their ideas on successors such as Keats, De Quincey, Byron and the Shelleys. Relevance to later figures such as the Cambridge Apostles and Tennyson is also discussed.

In this sequel to his Romantic Consciousness, John Beer discusses further questionings of human consciousness; both the degree to which Dickens's conscious dramatizing differs from the subconscious workings of his psyche and the exploration of subliminal consciousness by nineteenth-century psychical researchers.