Victorian poetry was written during Queen Victoria's reign from 1837 to 1901. While some romantic elements continued, Victorian poetry was generally less subjective and more realistic, discussing social issues like child labor, women's rights, science, and religion. Poets frequently used imagery, allusions to history and mythology, and poetic forms like the dramatic monologue and elegy. Victorian poetry often explored doubts and psychological conflicts that emerged during rapid industrialization, when many moved from rural areas to dirty, unhealthy cities with rising poverty and disease.

3. Queen Victoria (1837- 1901)

5. Many characteristics of romantic poetry continued in poetry of the
Victorian period.
- However, Victorian poetry, in general, is less subjective than the romantic.
- An interest in the past, both the classical and the medieval, appears in the
subjects, and in the use of mythological and historical allusions.
- The dramatic monologue is used greatly by the poets.
- The themes are more realistic, discussing such issues as child labor, the rights
of women, science and religion.
- Victorian poetry is mostly pictorial, heavily relying on visual imagery.
- The elegy is one of the most popular poetic forms in the period, a form of
poetry that laments the dead or the past.
- Victorian poetry is often characterized by doubt and psychological conflicts.

6. Elizabeth Barrett
Browning
Thomas Hardy
Alfred Tennyson
Robert Browning
Gerard Manley
Hopkins
Christina Rossetti

7. The Industrial Revolution was a period in the late 18th and early
19th centuries when major changes in
agriculture, manufacturing, mining, and transportation had a
profound effect on the socioeconomic and cultural conditions in
Britain. The Industrial Revolution gathered steam, and accelerated
the migration of the population from countryside to city. Britain
changes from a rural society to an urban one. It was dramatically
changed people’s lifestyles.

8. The Age of Steam
Mass Production

9. The old rural social pattern was receded
dirty and unhealthy conditions
Peoples left the countryside to
work in factories
Diseases , hunger, poverty… were raised

10. Child labour
Chimney Sweeper