id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9683 View source for English literature - Wikipedia .html text/html 3680 342 66 You are currently unable to edit Wikipedia due to a block affecting your IP address. It was in the [[Victorian era]] (1837–1901) that the novel became the leading [[literary genre]] in English.''The Bloomsbury Guide to English Literature'' (1990), p. ''The Norton Anthology of English Literature, The Major Authors: The Romantic Period through the Twentieth Century'', 7th ed., Vol. B. Trollope's novels portray the lives of the landowning and professional classes of early Victorian England.''The Oxford Companion to English Literature'' (1996), p. Towards the end of the 19th century, English poets began to take an interest in French [[Symbolist poetry|Symbolism]] and Victorian poetry entered a decadent ''[[Fin de siècle|fin-de-siècle]]'' phase.''The Norton Anthology of English Literature'', 7th edition, vol.2, ed. Yeats went on to become an important modernist in the 20th century.''The Norton Anthology of English Literature'', 7th edition, vol. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9683.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9683.txt