1. Topic – Victorian poet:- Tennyson & Browning
Name – Rayjada Mitalba J.
Roll No – 20
Enrollment No – 2069108420190040
Paper No – 6 ( victorian literature )
Email – mitalba1998@gmail.com
Suitted to :- S.B.Gardi Department of English ,
Maharaja krishnakumarsinhji University,
Bhavnagar.
2. SOME INFORMATION ABOUT A
ROMANTIC AGR AND VICTORIAN
AGE
Romantic Age
• Romantic Age in
Poets talk about
Idealism.
•Romantic poets talk
about Nature.
•Romantic poets talk
about a spirituality.
• Victorian Age
•Victorian Poets
and writers talk
about Realism.
•Industrialization
was rise in
Victorian age .
3. A. L. TENNYSON
• Tennyson was
Victorian poet.
•Tennyson Born
1809, England and
Death 1892.
•His Father name
George and Mother
Name Elizabeth.
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• His wife name Emily Sellwood.
• He was born in to Middle class family
but also had a noble and royal.
• Tennyson was two brothers and one
sister.
• He study Trinity college Cmbriage.
• His first work “ Two Brothers”
• This work collection with his Brothers.
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• first solo collection is “ poems chiefly
lyrical” in 1830.
• At Cambridge Tennyson met A.H.Hallan
and William Henry both are his closest
friends.
• Tennyson wrote 2nd book “ The lady of
shallot in 1833.
•Hallan was died so he is very sad and write
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•“ Break break break”.
• “ In Memoriam”
• This work so much like Elizabeth qeen
• Other work “Ulysses” and plays are “
Queen Marry , The Cup, The Foresters,
Becket etc..
7. ROBERT BROWNING
• Robert Browning is
British poet
• Born 1812 and Death
1889.
• His Father Name Robert
Browning and Mother
Sarah Anna.
• His wife Name Elizabeth
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•He started writing at just age of Twelve .
• His first work is “ Pauline”.
• This poem also shows very strong Influence of Shelly
upon Browning
• Poems are:-
•" My last Duchess”
•“Child Roland to the dark tower came”
• His plays:-
•“ King Victor and king Charles”
•“ Colombe’s Brithday”.
9. • Tennyson and
Browning are written in
defined poetic forms:
Browning uses the
classic from of the
heroic couplet, and
Tennyson uses the “in
momerian” and both
does not break their
rhyme and meter.
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• Tennyson is a most famous then Robert
Browning because Tennyson is the benchmark
of Victorian era.
• “ The dreaminess of Spencer, the Majesty of
Milton, the natural simplicity of Wordsworth,
the melody of Keats and Shelley, the narrative
vigor of Scott and Byron, all these striking
qualities are evident in successive pages of
Tennyson’s poetry”.
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• These words shows real greatness of
Tennyson because we cannot find this
type of rich mixture of quality in any other
poet so we can easily said that Tennyson
great poet in Victorian age.
• We find Keats influence on Tennyson and
Shelly influence on Robert Browning.
12. CONCLUSION....
• Tennyson and Browning are Victorian
poets. Victorianism differes from
Romanticism in many dramatic ways.
They both differ however in terms of
treatment of the subject.