Johnson’s views 55 juvenile verse 15 narrative verse 14 and thinking 98 Blake’s views 106–8 classical period 102–4 Shelley and Byron’s conversation on 99–101 verse dramas 15 Wordsworth’s views 111–13 See also meter; poetry verse romances 119, 185 verses, elegiac 15 versification, George Campbell’s views 103 Vesuvius 45 Victoria (Queen of Great Britain) xix Victorian, concept Victorian era, nostalgia 195 Viking myth, and British national identity 42 Virgil 16 vision