2. VICTORIAN POETRY
ALFRED TENNYSON:
• He is considered to be a poet
of sadness and loss.
• He wrote a lot in the dramatic
monologue form.
• He wrote poems on the
King Arthur and the Knights of
Round Table.
3. • The poems combine history, dramatic
effect, and the kind of sadness which he
was famous for.
• He wrote many plays.
• Tennyson is best known for IN
MEMORIAN, an elegy to a friend
• Tennyson's works were melancholic, and
reflected the moral and intellectual
values of his time
4. ROBERT BROWNING
The master of the
dramatic monologue form
in the Victorian Age.
Many of Browning’s
dramatic monologues
contain moments of
violence.
5. “My Last Duchess is one of the most
famous poems.
He became famous when he ran off with
Elizabeth Barret, who was also poet.
Browning’s vocabulary is large and his
fondness for little-known wprds
proverbial.
6. ELIZABETH BARRETT
BROWNING
She was the
best-known female
poem of the century.
“Aurora Leigh” was
considered a
Victorian feminist
text.
7. Her lyrics ( Sonnets from the
Portuguese) are pretty, displaying a
woman’s passion.
Many of her poems protest what she
considered unjust social conditions.
8. MATTHEW ARNOLD:
He wrote a short poem about the crisis of
beliefs of his time: “DOVER BEACH”.
ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH:
He reflects some of the feelings of doubt of
the time.
9. EDWARD LEAR:
. • He became
famous for his
nonsense
poems, often in a
rhyming form
called LIMERICK.
10. DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI
o His art was
characterised by its
sensuality and its
medieval revivalism.
o His early poetry was
influenced by John
Keats.
11. o His later poetry was characterised by the
complex interlinking of thought and
feeling, especially in his sonnet
sequence The House of Life.
