2. Sir Walter Scott
● 1st Baronet (15 Aug 1771- 21 Sept 1832) Scottish
Historical Novelist, Poet, Playwright & Historian.
● Many of his works remain Classics.
● Famous titles include:
● The Lady of the Lake (Narrative Poem)
● Waverley Novels
3. ● Old Mortality
● Rob Roy
● The Heart of Mid Lothian
● The Bride of Lammermoor
● Ivanhoe
● The Waverley Novels is the title given to the long
series of Scott novels released from 1814 to 1832
which takes its name from the first novel Waverley.
4. The Lady of the Lake-Poem
● Narrative Poem first published in 1810
● Set in the Trossachs region of Scotland.
● It is composed of 6 cantos, each of which
concerns the action of a single day.
● The poem has three main plots: the contest
among three men to win the love of Ellen
Douglas.
6. Thomas Campbell
● Thomas Campbell (27July1777-15
June1844)was a Scottish poet.
● He was a founder & the first
President of the ‘Clarence Club’ & a
co-founder of the Literary
Association of the Friends of Poland.
7. ● He was also one of the initiators of a plan to
found what became University College London.
● In 1799 he wrote “The Pleasures of Hope”, a
traditional 18th century didactic poem in heroic
couplets.
● He also produced several stirring patriotic war
songs, “Ye Mariners of England”, “The Soldier's
Dream”, “Hohenlinden” & in 1801, “The Battle of
the Baltic”.
8. Thomas Hood (23 May 1799 - 3 May 1845)
● An English port, author & humourist.
● Best known for poems “The Bridge of Sighs”
& “The Song of the Shirt”.
● William Michael Rossetti in 1903 called him
“the finest English poet” between the
generations of Shelley & Tennyson.
9. The Bridge of Sighs (Poem)
● This is a famous poem of 1844 by Thomas Hood
concerning the suicide of a homeless young
woman who threw herself from Waterloo Bridge
in London.
The Song of the Shirt (1843)
● This poem was written in honour of a Mrs.Biddell,
a widow & seamstress living in wretched
conditions.
10. Thomas Hood ● Mrs.Biddell sewed trousers
& shirts in her home using
materials given to her by
her employer for which she
was forced to give a £2
deposit.
● Mrs.Biddwell was sent to
workhouse & her ultimate
fate is unknown.
11. ● This poem depicts the wretched conditions of
England's working poor, who often spent 7 days a
week labouring under inhuman conditions, barely
managing to survive & with no prospect for relief.
● This poem contributed to general awareness of the
condition of the working class which fed the
popularity of trade unionism & the push for stricter
labour laws.
12. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Victorian Poet
● Elizabeth (6 March 1806 - 29 June 1861) was an
English poet of the Victorian era, popular in
Britain and the US during her lifetime.
● Elizabeth's work had a major influence on
prominent writers of the day, including the
American poets Edgar Allan Poe & Emily
Dickinson.
● She's remembered for poems “How do I love
thee?” (sonnet 43, 1845) & “Aurora Leigh”(1856).
13. Major works by
Elizabeth Browning
● The Battle of Marathon: A
poem(1820)
● An essay on mind, with
other poems(1826)
● Prometheus Bound,
translated from the Greek.
● Sonnets from the
Portuguese
14. Aurora Leigh (1856)
● An epic poem cum novel, blank verse,
encompasses 9 books, first person narration.
● In book 5, Aurora narrates her past, from her
childhood to the age of about 27.
● In books 6-9, the narrative has caught up with her
& she reports events in dairy form.
● Elizabeth styled the poem “a novel in verse”, &
referred to it as “the most mature of my works,
and the one into which my highest convictions
upon Life and Art have entered.”
15. ● Scholar Deirdre David asserts that Barrett
Browning’s work in Aurora Leigh has made her
into “a major figure in any consideration of the
19th century woman writer & of Victorian poetry
in general.
● John Ruskin called Aurora Leigh the GREATEST
LONG POEM of the 19th century.
