The big bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going but the exquisite touch which renders commonplace things and characters interesting from the truth of the description and the sentiments is denied me." Affirmative acclaims could also be heard from Robert Southey, poet laureate and friend of the great romantics: "Her novels are more true to nature, and have, for my sympathies, passages of finer feeling than any others of this age." And of the Victorians, George Henry Lewes, George Eliot's devoted friend, said: "In spite of the sense of incongruity which besets us in the word prose Shakespeare, we confess the greatness of Miss Austen her marvelous dramatic power seems, more than any thing in Scott, akin to the greatest quality in Shakespeare."īut adverse criticism rang as loudly as did the favorable. Sir Walter Scott, the great romantic, had this to say: "That young lady has a talent for describing the involvements and feelings and characters of ordinary life which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. Coleridge, Whewell, Tennyson, Sidney Smith, Andrew Bradley all spoke out in her favor. Archbishop Whately and Macaulay both compared her with Shakespeare. Jane Austen's warmest admirers have always been men. Consistently inconsistent, critics, ranging from the fiery romantics to the subtle Victorians, could not agree. The nineteenth century contained a hotbed of critical views about the writer.
Critical Reception of Sense and Sensibility.Plot and Theme in Sense and Sensibility.
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