>…thoughtfully crafted poetic fragment. Lots of good Victorian writing is like that Charles Dickens - Any of his works Rudyard Kipling - Remembered now for c

>…thoughtfully crafted poetic fragment. Lots of good Victorian writing is like that Charles Dickens - Any of his works Rudyard Kipling - Remembered now for children’s books but also wrote some amazing novels and poetry for adults. He has written some pretty trippy stuff too. I remember a poem about all the structural parts of a ship talking to each other in a storm and another short story about an engineer that’s a sort of fever dream mixed with a monsoon flood at the bridge he’s building. Oscar Wilde - e.g. The Nightingale and the Rose is a masterwork of pathos. http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/NigRos.shtml http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/NigRos.shtm... A lot of literature from that period paid attention to the the rhythm and flow of the sentences, if you read any of it aloud it rolls off the tongue compared to modern writing.