The Victorian movement or the “Victorian poetry movement” was a 19^th century poetic period that took place in England during the reign of the Victorian Era (1827-1901).   The Victorian movement literally “describes things and events in the reign of Queen Victoria.”  The Victorian age lasted a couple years that it consisted of several different periods.  This period was an age of power and absurdity.  The Victorian era created a transition between the writers from the romantic period to those from the 20^th century.  Overall, Charles Dickens can be defined as an author and poet from the Victorian movement.  Along with Dickens, other poets that were from the Victorian era are: Oscar Wilde, Elizabeth Gaskell, Thomas Hardy, etc…

            Charles Dickens can be said to be the most famous writer during the Victorian period because the characters from his novels take on “a life of their own beyond the page.”  The Pickwick Papers was Dickens first real novel and was written when he was about twenty-five years old.  This novel was described as an overnight success because of the use of his dark themes.  Overall, Dickens became the most well known Victorian poet.  The Victorian Era can also be described as the movement where many writers and poets decided to write children’s novels.  Charles Dickens was one of many writers that decided to take on this task.  He wrote A Childs History of England, which was a type of novel that was directed towards young audiences as well as A Christmas Carol.

            The Victorian movement has been so influential that it has influenced writers from the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.  Some Canadian Victorian authors are Sussana Moodie, and Catherine Parr Traill.  The Australian writers can be described as Adam Lindsay Gordon and Banjo Paterson.  The only problem with the classification of Victorian literature is that there is a great difference between the early works of the period and the later works, which had more in common with the writers of the Edwardian period, and many writers straddle this divide. More authors and novelits were H.G. Wells, Bram Stoker, and Joseph Conrad all wrote some of their important works during Victoria's reign but the sensibility of their writing is frequently regarded as Edwardian.