Presention

1. Comparative study of
Browning and Tennyson
Prepared by:- Sneha Agravat
Batch:- 2020-22(MA sem 1)
Paper 4:- Literature of the Victorians
Roll no.:-17
Enrollment no.:-306920642020001
E-mail Id :- snehaagravat2000@gmail.com
Submitted to:- S.B.Gardi Department Of English Maharaja krishnkumarsinhji Bhavngar University

2. Robert Browning
• Born:- 7 May 1812
• Died: 12 December 1889
• Victorian poet
Major work:-
• The Ring and The Book
• Pauline: A Fragment of a Confession
• The Pied Piper of Hamelin

3. Alfred Lord Tennyson
• Born: 6 August 1809
Died: 6 October 1892
• He was the Poet Laureate during much of Queen
Victoria’s reign and remains one of the most popular
British poets
• Notable work :-Timbuktu(awarded the chancellor’s
Gold medal at Cambridge)
Victorian poet
• Major works:- In Memoriam, The Charge of the Light
Brigade’ and ‘Idylls of the King

4. Difference between there writting
style
• Both are Victorian poet and famous in Dramatic monologue
Browning focuses on the psyche of his frantic characters and tries to
look into deep inside of such characters in his writings.
• Langauge of Tennyson draws material from external specific
realities, ideas, and objects and tries to express it through ornate
language.
• Tennyson’s and Robert Browning is in their nature of expression.
• Browning’s writings are always energetic but in Tennison’s tone of
expression is generally melancholic where he tends to give touch of
nostalgia. Their poetic concerns are hardly related.

5. • Browning systematically depicts the essence of a character whereas
Tennyson gives importance in mood.
• Tennyson as a source for his poetry, used many subjects from domestic
conditions to observation of atmosphere. Whereas, Browning takes an
immoral character and challenges us to find out the moral excellence
Browning in his poetry tries to realize human nature, society and religion.
Whereas, Tennyson recall the conscious mind an environment through
ornate language.
Browning logically reveals the essence of a person whereas, Tennyson
induce and plays a particular mood.

6. Mariana and childe Ronald
to the Tower Came
Browning’s ‘Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came’ and Tennyson’s “Mariana”
The description of landscape indicates the state of mind of the poem’s central
character.
• Not describing something beautiful or attractive
‘Mariana’ is thickly atmospheric.
• Childe Roland” by contrast has a very strong sense of movement and progress.
• Strong sense of stillness conveyed within the poem, everything especially Mariana is
passive.It is not possible to forget that this is a journey through a landscape.
• These two poets are, as can be seen, very different in their approach to the idea of
the narrative.

7. Conclusion
• In the and we can say that browning’s place in our literature
will be better appreciated by comparison with his friend
Tennyson. Whom we just studied in our respect, especially
in their methods of approaching the truth, the two man are
the exact opposites.Tennyson is the first artist and then the
teacher, but with browning the message is always the
important thing and he careless, too careless, of the form in
which it is expressed.

8. References
• “Alfred, Lord Tennyson English Poet.” William Wallace Robson, 1972,
www.britannica.com/biography/Alfred-Lord-Tennyson.
• “A Short Comparative Study Between Browning and Tennyson.” Mahbubur
Rahman, 2012,
www.academia.edu/7352628/A_Short_Comparative_Study_Between_Brow
ning_and_Tennyson.
• “Robert Browning British Poet.” Philip Drew, Dec. 2020,
www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Browning.

9. •Thank you