Are there any English Victorian writers that don't have completely sterile prose?
>>8133259
is there anyone on /lit/ who has an attention span longer than a fruit fly?
>>8133259
that one dude that wrote Middlemarch.
>>8133259
Alfred Tennyson's Idylls of the King is very powerful.
He was a poet though. Victorian prose is universally shite.
Is there anyone on /lit/ that isn't a narcissistic, pretentious prick?
>>8133259
That one faggot who married his cousin.
Lewis Carroll
>>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
even the british themselves back then actually didnt like british literature from that time.
>>8134472
>can't handle reading pleb books
top lel
Samuel Butler
Oscar Wilde
Robert Louis Stevenson
Rudyard Kipling
>>8133502
>Victorian prose is universally shite.
Have we really fallen so far?
>>8134501
Wildes prose is crap
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)