Until recently, the Victorian era has been understood as largely anti-modern. Much Victorian poetry was simply ignored by critics, who often saw it as regressive. The poets from the period who did garner attention often did so because they seemed to be “ahead of their time.” Starting in the 1990s and continuing into the present, literary critics have begun to revisit the question of Victorian poets' relationship to modernity. This scholarship, which often focuses on how poetry from the period was shaped by industrialization and technological innovation, contends that the work of many Victorian poets can be understood as fundamentally modern. This article briefly reviews older scholarship on Victorian poetry's relationship to modernity, surveys more recent critical interventions, and suggests the development of a critical approach to the poetry of the period that would neither collapse the terms “Victorian” and “modern” nor simply set them at odds with one another.

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维多利亚时代的诗歌现代吗？

直到最近，维多利亚时代一直被理解为是反现代的。许多维多利亚时代的诗歌被评论家简单地忽略了，他们常常认为这是回归的。那个时期引起人们关注的诗人之所以经常这样做，是因为他们似乎“已经过时了”。从1990年代开始一直延续到现在，文学评论家已开始重新审视维多利亚时代诗人与现代性的关系问题。这项奖学金通常侧重于那个时期的诗歌是如何被工业化和技术创新塑造的，它主张许多维多利亚时代诗人的作品可以理解为根本上是现代的。本文简要回顾了有关维多利亚时代诗歌与现代性关系的较旧学术研究，并调查了更多近期的重要干预措施，