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The nineteenth century was a time of immense upheavals, revolutions and transitions, and it was also a time that yielded an immense output of literary treasures. 

The nineteenth century was pivotal in the development of the novel and the poem. Poetry ended and was reborn. Wordsworth reinvented poetry to be about the personal expression of the poet's mind. 

The novel was transformed from a frivolous distraction to the highest form of literary art.