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A 4 page paper which examines how this is often called the
anti-heroic age and how it has been in the making for some time. Individuals discussed in
this discussion are D.H. Lawrence, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Alfred Lord Tennyson,
and William Butler Yeats. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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4 pages (~225 words per page)
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case, and that is highly debatable, then it is a condition that has been in a state of evolution for some time, changing as society changes. If we argue that
there has been a decline in heroism and that we, in fact, do live in an anti-heroic age, then there must have been an element in the past that helped
to cause this transition. Though such an query can perhaps never truly be answered definitively, the following paper provides a brief illustration of 4 literary artists who may hold a
clue as to the reason behind a decline in heroism. The individuals examined are Barrett Browning, Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Butler Yeats, and D.H. Lawrence. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Our first artist under discussion, Browning, is actually an artist whose works are more often associated with love and admiration, thus appearing to have little or nothing to do with
any type of heroism. She was a woman, born in 1806, whose life was filled with sadness in the beginning. Her life, later, was controlled by her father who refused
to allow her or any of the other children, of which there were 12 altogether, to marry. When she met someone and fell in love she ran away from home
and most of her poetry concerns her love and admiration and gratefulness to her husband. However, later in life she began writing on some serious issues: "In her late
years Elisabeth Browning developed an interest in spiritualism and Italian independence movement. She became supporter of Italian unity,...She also opposed slavery in her books ...Her magnum opus, AURORA LEIGHT (1857),
was a novel in blank verse about a woman writer, her childhood and pursuit of a literary career. It also dealt such themes as the poets mission, social responsibilities, and
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