Many Victorians, such as Thomas Carlyle, Matthew Arnold, John Stuart Mill and Arthur Hallam, wrote essays on what the Victorian poet should do and what poetry should be. ... For John Stuart Mill the key element of poetry is emotion. ... Moreover, for Mill, poetry needs to be confined to the poet's private sphere; rather than being heard by an audience, poetry is "overheard." Arthur Henry Hallam (1811 – 1833) propagated a poetic theory somewhat similar to that of John Stuart Mill. ... The Lady of Shalott, lives in isolation; nobody "hath seen her wave her hand" ...

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Finally, this section will also compare the two characters with that of Satan, the major character in the poem "Paradise Lost" by John Milton. ... Satan: Milton's Paradise Lost In the epic poem of Paradise Lost by John Milton, Satan who is one of the characters is also depicted as a villainous character that is up to causing rifts and disturbance due to his quest for power and authority (Milton 58). ...

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