Abstract
The usual effect of Victorian poetry is to prove that a truth exists, that the search for it must be unrelenting, and that its very attainment promotes a further search for a more ultimate truth—ad infinitum. This search is the penetration of self, an interior journey on which the individual draws away from the world of appearance, from the encrustations of social personality and ever closer to innermost reality. Like Shelley and Coleridge, the major Victorians express themselves in terms of idealist philosophy; their poetic form schematizes the self into subject-object relationships. If, as compared with their predecessors, they seem to be more distant from the individual consciousness, more interested in the neat recounting of "stories," on closer examination one finds the "stories" are dramatizations for philosophical inculcation.
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