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2. Tennyson , his poetry is one long
lesson in peace and restraint . The
same spirit of compromise is clearly
seen in his political outlook as well as
in his religious attitude. Tennyson
became poet laureate in 1850. His
major works include THE LADY OF
SHALOTT (1832) , THE LOTOS
EATERS , MORTE D ARTHUR ,
ULYSSES and IN MEMORIAN.

3. Lamb started his literary career
as a poet writing short poems
like THE OLD FAMILIAR
FACES (1798). Nevertheless,
Lamb is known for his essays
that comprised two volumes ,
ESSAYS OF ELIA , and THE
LAST ESSAYS OF ELIA
.They are known for their
marvellous blend of personal
and universal interests.

4. Byron , a born revolutionary , was
scarcely influenced by the earlier
phase of the French Revolution .
Liberty and individualism were one
and the same for Byron. The Byronic
hero is a solitary , melancholic
outcast who defies societal
conventions . DON JUAN , THE
CORSAIR , CHILDE HAROLD and
LARA are his popular poems.

5. Jane Austen is a chronicler of
English country life and the
social mores of the family of
the country squire. SENSE
AND SENSIBILITY (1811),
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
(1813), MANSFIELD PARK
(1814), EMMA (1815),
NORTHANGER ABBEY
(1817) and PERSUASION
(1818).

6. Keats endowed with a purely
artistic nature and distanced
himself from the conflicts of his
time . His odes finely balance the
variegated sensuousness of
human experience with the
transience of human life. ODE TO
AUTUMN (1819) , ODE ON A
GRECIAN URN (1819) are a few
of his universally renowned odes
.His other works include
ENDYMION (1818) and
ISABELLA OR THE POT OF

7. The Gothic tradition in fiction had
its fervent votary in Mary Shelley
, the wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley
. She was a short story writer ,
novelist , biographer, essayist and
travel writer .Her fame rests on
her Gothic novel,
FRANKENSTEIN It is an
epistolary narrative which is a
combination of Gothic tale and
the fable of ideas.

8. Shelley was a revolutionary
idealist , a great prophet of
faith and hope in the world.
Shelley’s poems fall into two
groups personal and
impersonal poems. His
famous works include
QUEEN MAB ,
PROMETHEUS UNBOUND ,
THE REVOLT OF ISLAM ,
ODE TO THE WEST WIND ,

9. Browning was bold , rugged, and
unconventional in matter and style.
His genius was essentially dramatic
and he made effective use of the
dramatic monologue. Browning’s
memorable dramatic monologues
like FRA LIPPO LIPPI and
ANDREA DEL SARTO appeared in
the collection MEN AND WOMEN.

10. Coleridge’s poetic output is
slender but rich in excellence .
THE RIME OF ANCIENT
MARINER , CHRISTABEL ,
KUBLA KHAN , DEJECTION;
AN ODE , and FROST AT
MIDNIGHT . BIOGRAPHIA
LITERARIA , is his famous
prose work. Coleridge has to his
credit in prose works too. It is
chaotically philosophical and

11. Wordsworth is the greatest poet of the
country and of the natural world
.Wordsworth’s treatment of nature is
his chief distinction as a poet. His
pantheism , by which he discerns a
divine being in nature that sustains
man in his desolation , is his greatest
contribution to the poetry of nature .
His important poems are TINTERN
ABBEY, THE PRELUDE , MICHAEL ,
LUCY GRAY , RESOLUTION AND
INDEPENDENCE , THE SOLITARY
REAPER , THE DAFFODILS , ODE
ON THE INTIMATIONS OF
IMMORTALITY .