The Pre-Raphaelite Movement began in 1848, and experienced its
heyday in the 1860s and 1870s. Influenced by the then little-known Keats
and Blake, as well as Wordsworth, Shelley and Coleridge, Pre-Raphaelite
poetry "etherialized sensation" (in the words of Antony Harrison), and
popularized the notion ofl'art pour l'art—art for art's sake. Where
Victorian realist novels explored the grit and grime of the Industrial
Revolution, Pre-Raphaelite poems concentrated on more abstract themes of
romantic love, artistic inspiration and sexuality. Later they attracted
Aesthetes and Decadents like Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley and Ernest
Dowson, not to mention Gerard Manley Hopkins and W.B. Yeats.
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