This document provides biographical information and summaries of major works by four Victorian poets: Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Matthew Arnold. It notes their dates, backgrounds, and most famous poems. For each poet, it highlights one of their works, such as Tennyson's "In Memoriam" about mourning his friend, Browning's dramatic monologue "My Last Duchess", Elizabeth Barrett Browning's love poem "How Do I Love Thee?", and Arnold's poem "Dover Beach" about loss of religious faith.

1. • Name : Makwana Vijay K.
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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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