In this Presentation , I discuss about The Victorian Age and The Victorian Poets.

1. The Victorian Age (1850 - 1900)
The Victorian Poets
Prepared by. Aarti Sarvaiya

2. ● The Victorian Age/Period ,from the coronation of Queen Victoria in
1837 until her death in 1901,was an era of numerous disturbing
social developments.
● During this period,the writers were forced to write on the living
issues of society.
● It was an era of material prosperity, political consciousness,
democratic reforms, industrial and mechanical progress,scientific
advancement,social unrest,educational expansion,empire building
and religious uncertainty.
About Victorian Age

3. ● It is remarkable to note that the Victorian Age made
progress in the field of poetry,prose and fiction.
Writers of this age :-
Novelist Poets Essayist
Charles Dickens Alfred Tennyson Thomas B. Macaulay
W. M. Thackeray Robert Browning Thomas Carlyle
George Eliot Elizabeth Barrett John Ruskin
Charles Reade D. G. Rossetti Matthew Arnold
Charlotte Bronte William Morris John Henry Newman
Thomas Hardy Swinburne

4. The Victorian Poets :-
● Alfred Tennyson
● Robert Browning
● Elizabeth Barrett
● Dante Gabriel Rossetti
● William Morris
● Algernon Charles Swinburne

5. Alfred Tennyson (1809 - 1892)
● Tennyson was Queen Victoria's Poet laureate from 1850 until
his death in 1892.
● At the University, Tennyson soon became known for his poetical
ability,and two years after his entrance he gained the prize for a
poem called “ Timbuctoo”.
● In 1831, Tennyson left the University without taking his degree.
The reason for this step are not clear ; but the family was
poor,and poverty may have played a large part in his
determination.
● Tennyson wrote his works for enjoyment, inspiration rather than
for instructions.

6. Poems Of Tennyson
● Poems Chiefly
Lyrical(1830)
● Break,Break,Break
● The Charge Of Light
Brigade
● Tears,Idle Tears
● Crossing the Bar
● Merlin and The Gleam
● The Princess
● Idylls Of The King
● Ulysses
● Tithonus

7. Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)
● Robert Browning was an English poet and playwright whose dramatic
monologue put him high among The Victorian Poets.
● Thought Browning is often compared with Shakespeare,the reader will
understand that he has very little of Shakespeare’s dramatic telent.
● He cannot bring a group of people's together and let the actions and
words of his characters show us the comedy and tragedy of human
life.
● His poems may be decided into three Classes ,Pure Dramas, Dramatic
Narratives, Dramatic Lyrics.

8. Browning’s Poems :-
● My Last Duchess
● The Pied Piper Of Hamelin
● Porphyria’s Lover
● Fra Lippo Lippi
● Soliloquy of The Spanish
Cloister
● Andrea Del Sarto
● Meeting At Night
● Caliban Upon Satebos

9. Elizabeth Barrett
● English poet of The Victorian Era.
● Elizabeth Barrett occupies perhaps the highest place in popular
favor.
● The innate strength and beauty of her spirit here showed itself
strongly in her daily study ,her poetry and especially in her interest
in the society problems which sooner or later occupied all The
Victorian writers.

10. Elizabeth Barrett’s Poems
:-
● The Runways Slave At
Pilgrims Point
● Bianca among the
Nightingale
● A Musical Instrument
● How Do I Love Thee? Let me
Count The Ways
● Beloved,Thou Hast Brought
Me Many Flowers
● Aurora Leigh

11. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 1882)
● D. G. Rossetti, the son of an exiled Italian Painter and scholar,was
distinguished both as a painter and as a poet.
● He was a leader in the Pre- Raphaelite movement.
● Elizabeth Siddal,a dedicate, beautiful English girl,whom he has
immortalized both in his pictures and in his poetry.
● She died two years later,and Rossetti never entirely recovered from
the shock.

12. D. G. Rossetti :-
● The Blessed Damizal(1850)
● Poems(1869)
● Ballads and Sonnets(1882)
● Ballads and Narrative
Poems
● Sonnets
● Lyrucal Poems(1894)
● My Sister's Sleep
● The Bride's Prelude

13. William Morris (1834 - 1896)
● William Morris is a most interesting combination of
literary man and artist.
● In the later capacity, as architect, designer, and
manufacturer of forniture,carpets and wall paper and as a
founder of The Kelmscott Press for artistic printing and
bookbinding, he has laid us all under an immense debt of
gratitude.

14. William Morris’s Poems :-
● The Earthly Paradise (1868
- 1870)
● The Defence of Guenavera
● Our Hands Have Met
● Atalanta’s Race
● Sir Peter Harpdon’s End
● Flora
● A Good Knight In Prison
● Love Is Enough
● A Death Song
● Autumn

15. Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837 - 1909)
● Swinburne was an English Poet , Playwright,Novelist and
Critic.
● Swinburne was one of the most technically accomplished
poet of The Victorian Age.

16. Swinburne’s Poems :-
● The Ballad Of Villon and
Fat Madge
● The Garden Of Proserpine
● A Forsaken Garden
● A Match
● The Triumph Of Time
● The Leper
● A Leave - Taking
● Laus Veneris
● To a Cat

17. Refference :-
● History of English Literature, William J. Long
● Web Search -
Britannica,
Poetryfoundatiom