Major Poets of Victorian age
- 1. • Name : Makwana Vijay K. • Email : [email protected] • Roll no. : 34 • Enrollment no. : 2069108420180035 • Study : M.A PART 1, SEM 2 • Submitted to : Department of English (MKBU) Paper no. 6 : The Victorian Literature
- 2. Topic : Major Poets of Victorian Age
- 3. INTRODUCTION OF THE VICTORIAN AGE : • Victorian literature is that produce during the Queen Victoria (1837~1901) or the Victorian era. • The literature of this era was preceded by Romanticism and was followed by modernism or realism. • It can also be called fusion of romantic and realist style of writing.
- 4. MAJOR POETS OF VICTORIAN AGE • Alfred Lord Tennyson : • Robert Browning : • Elizabeth Barrett Browning : • Matthew Arnold :
- 5. ALFRED LORD TENNYSON : (6 AUGUST 1809 – 6 OCTOBER 1892) • He was a student of King Edward VI Grammar School, Louth. • He entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1827. Their he meet Arthur Hallam. • Tennyson and Hallam were part of literary group called the Apostles. • Tennyson’s first collection of poetry, poems “Chiefly Lyrical” was published in 1830.
- 6. TENNYSON’S MAJOR WORKS : “Break,Break,Break” “The Charge of the Light Brigade” “Tears, Idle Tears“ "Crossing the Bar” “Ulysses” “In Memoriam A.H.H.” “Idylls of the King” “Tithonus”
- 7. TENNYSON’S WORK “IN MEMORIAM” : • This poem is tribute to his friend Arthur Hallam. • In Memoriam poem published in 1850. • This poem shows Tennyson’s battling with the issue of morality.
- 8. ROBERT BROWNING : (7 MAY 1812 – 12 DECEMBER 1889) • He was born in Camberwell, England. • He was master of monologue. • Browning started writing poetry at the age of 12 in 1833. • At the age of 16, he attended the University College of London.
- 9. BROWNING’S MAJOR WORKS : • Notable works : “Men and Women”, “The Ring and the Book”, “Dramatis Personae”, “Dramatic Lyrics”, “Dramatic Romances and Lyrics”, “My Last Duchess” • Poems and Monologues : “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, “Fra Lippo Lippi”, “Andrea Del Sarto”, and popular poems : “Porphyria's Lover”, “How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix”, “The Diptych Meeting at Night”, “Home Thoughts from Abroad”, and the children's poem “The Pied Piper of Hamelin”
- 10. BROWNING’S WORK “MY LAST DUCHESS” : • “My Last Duchess” is the example of dramatic monologue. The poem shows art, culture, madness and gealousy. • Duke had murdered his 17 year old wife after three years of marriage and married another girl. • This poem is all about power the political and social power by speaker and his attempt to control the domestic sphere in the same way he rules his lands.
- 11. ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING : (6 MARCH 1806 – 29 JUNE 1861) • Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an English poet of the Victorian era. She was born in Coxhoe Hall, England. She didn’t receive any formal education and was educated at home with her siblings. • In the 1830s Elizabeth was introduced to literary society through her cousin, John Kenyon. Her first collection of poems was published in 1838. • Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning is perhaps best known for her 'Sonnets From the Portuguese' and 'Aurora Leigh’.
- 12. ELIZABETH‘S MAJOR WORKS : • Sonnet 24 (1850) • How Do I Love Thee? • The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point (1848) • The Cry of the Children (1840) • A Musical Instrument (1862) • Lord Walter's Wife (1862) • Aurora Leigh (1856) • “Died..” (1862) • The Best Thing in the World (1862)
- 13. ELIZABETH’S WORK “HOW DO I LOVE THEE?” : • This poem is about love, admiration, identity, and morality. • The speaker asks how she loves her beloved and tries to list the different ways in which she loves him. • Her love seems to be eternal and to exist everywhere, and she intends to continue loving him after her own death.
- 14. MATTHEW ARNOLD : (24 DECEMBER 1822 – 15 APRIL 1888) • He was an English poet and cultural critic. • He was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford in 1857, and he was the first in this position to deliver his lectures in English rather than in Latin. • Arnold has been characterised as a sage writer, a type of writer who chastises and instructs the reader on contemporary social issues.
- 15. MATHEW ARNOLD’S MAJOR WORKS : • Notable works : "Dover Beach", "The Scholar-Gipsy", "Thyrsis", “Culture and Anarchy” • Poems : “The Forsaken Merman“, “To A Friend“,”The Buried Life”, ”A Wish Growing Old”, “Rugby Chapel”, “East London”, “Morality”, “West London” • Drametic Poem : “Empedocles On Etna”
- 16. ARNOLD’S WORK “DOVER BEACH” : • “Dover Beach” talk about the challenges to the validity of long-standing theological and moral precepts have shaken the faith of people in God and religion. • This poem based on sadness, suffering, spirituality, the natural world, consciousness, existence and life.
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