Poets of Victorian Age

1. Topic : Poets of Victorian Age
Name : Utsavi Bharatbhai Mori
Roll No : 33
Paper No : 6 The Victorian Literature.
Semester : 2nd
Submitted to : Department of English
M . K . Bhavnagar University.

2. Introduction
o The Victorian age is especially remarkable
because of its rapid progress in all the arts and
science and in Mechanical inventions.
o Victorian as is also known for the age of the
Newspapers, the Magazine, and the modern
novel.
o The first two being the story of the worlds daily
life and the last our pleasantest form of literary
entertainment as well as our most successful
method of presenting modern problems and
modern ideas.

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• Victorian age is emphatically an age of realism
rather then of romance not the realism of Zola
and Ibson but a deeper realism which strives
to tell the whole truth, showing moral and
physical diseases as they are , but holding up
health and hope as the normal condition of
humanity.

4. DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI
(1828-1882)
o Rossetti was an artist
and poet very
influential in the pre-
Raphaelite movement.
often write a poem
specifically
o He would for a piece of
his artwork, or the
other way around.

5. MATTHEW ARNOLD
(1822-1888)
o Matthew Arnold was
considered one of the
first modern poets of the
Victorian Era.
o He was the
superintendent of
England’s schools for
many years and was
highly revered.
o Arnold was famous for his
imagery involving the
ocean and also themes
involving women.

6. CHRISTINA ROSSETTL
(1830-1894)
o Most famous for her
poem Goblin market,
Rossetti asserted
herself as a great
female poet of the era.
o She was published
widely until her death,
especially in the pre-
Raphaelite magazine
“The Germ”

7. ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
(1806-1861)
o Browning, married to
poet Robert Browning
was also one of the
most famous Victorian
poets- famous both in
England and US.
o She had a great
influence on Edgar Allen
Poe and Emily
Dicksinson.

8. ROBERT BROWNING
(1812-1889)
o Browning was famous
for his dramatic
monologues and
commentary on social
institutions.
o He was married to
Victorian poet Elizabeth
Barrett Browning.

9. ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
(1809-1892)
o Tennyson was the Poet
Laureate of the era, and
one of the most revered
poets of all time.
o His lengthy poem in
Memoriam is his most
famous.
o He is the 2nd most
quoted writer after
Shakespeare.