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Are there any English Victorian writers that don't have

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Are there any English Victorian writers that don't have completely sterile prose?
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>>8133259
is there anyone on /lit/ who has an attention span longer than a fruit fly?
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>>8133259
that one dude that wrote Middlemarch.
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>>8133259
Alfred Tennyson's Idylls of the King is very powerful.

He was a poet though. Victorian prose is universally shite.
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Is there anyone on /lit/ that isn't a narcissistic, pretentious prick?
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>>8133259
That one faggot who married his cousin.
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Lewis Carroll
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>>8133275
>>8133516
no
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>>8133275
I cacn read long books but can't get through a chapter of Jane Austin/Dickens etc :( I've just given up on them
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even the british themselves back then actually didnt like british literature from that time.
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>>8134472
>can't handle reading pleb books

top lel
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Samuel Butler
Oscar Wilde
Robert Louis Stevenson
Rudyard Kipling
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>>8133502
>Victorian prose is universally shite.
Have we really fallen so far?
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>>8134501
Wildes prose is crap
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jane austen is pretty great and free indirect speech is one of the most novel inventions in all of literary history (ill fight you if you disagree)
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