What was the relationship between Victorian poets and the Romantics ?

What was the relationship between Victorian poets and the Romantics ?

A. The Romantics remained largely forgotten until their rediscovery by T. S. Eliot in the 1920s.
B. The Victorians were disgusted by the immorality and narcissism of the Romantics.
C. The Romantics were seen as gifted but crude artists belonging to a distant, semibarbarous age.
D. The Victorians were strongly influenced by the Romantics and experienced a sense of belatedness.

For what do Matthew Arnold’s moral investment in nonfiction and Walter Pater’s aesthetic investment together pave the way ?

For what do Matthew Arnold’s moral investment in nonfiction and Walter Pater’s aesthetic investment together pave the way ?

A. a renewed secularism in the twentieth century
B. modern literary criticism
C. late nineteenth-century and earlytwentieth- century satirical drama
D. the surrealist movement