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Reading Malory’s “The Fair Maid of Astolat” influenced how I read Tennyson’s “The Lady of Shallot“. The victorian poem focuses primarily on the Lady of Shalott herself with a delayed introduction of Lancelot. Malory’s poem is filled with many characters. The overlapping names, places and […]

          Wordsworth’s poem “Lines Composed Upon Westminster Bridge” paints a picture of London much different than many of the other writers or artists we have read from for this class. Rather than depicting a dirty, poor, and overpopulated city, Wordsworth gives […]

London is to Holmes as Oxygen is to life. Holmes would be incomplete without London as his greatest companion. With the development of police professionals in the city of London, less crimes were being solved by crows of people on the street as seen in […]

In this photo (the right picture), the man has a traveling selling table perched in the side walk of an unidentified corner of the city. The box is very clean and the advertisement is clearly labeled and explained for the buyer. The lady behind the […]

I would like to focus first on the significant of Wordsworth’s language choice, formal choices, etc. Wordsworth’s poem “Composed Upon Westminster Bridge” depicts the speaker’s view of London with the voice of a modern English man in a beloved style. The poem is a Petrarchan […]

Dickens in both Oliver Twist and in Night Walks discusses this theme of being born into poverty and the concept of homelessness. In his novel Oliver Twist, Dickens portrays these themes through the main protagonist, Oliver himself, where Oliver is born into poverty and homelessness after his mother died shortly […]

Gustave Doré sketched with beautiful technique, very dramatic depictions of Victorian life in London in his image Houndsditch. His extreme detail, shading, and his unique use of line direction, shade, thickness, and spacing add a lot of depth and realism to the works. This realism […]