Chapter 7: The Victorian Era Flashcards
(58 cards)
Tennyson’s first published elegy for his friend, Arthur Hallam: “But O for the touch of a vanished hand, / And the sound of a voice that is still!”
“Break, Break, Break”
Short works describing pleasant scenes of country or domestic life; a brief picture, sketch, or scene.
Idyll
The Voice of Victorian England; one of the greatest craftsmen of the English language; the most popular poet of the Victorian Era.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Considered by many to be Tennyson’s greatest poem, whose theme encourages people to keep striving no matter what the end may be.
“Ulysses”
A lyric poem which reveals “a soul in action” through the conversation of one character in a dramatic situation.
Dramatic monologue
Tennyson’s greatest poem and one of the greatest elegies in the English language: “‘Tis better to have loved and lost / than never to have loved at all.”
In Memoriam
Tennyson’s domestic idyll that has been called one of the noblest stories of self-sacrifice in all literature; probably the most popular of Tennyson’s poems that established him as the “Poet of the People.”
Enoch Arden
The theme of what work is the war of sense with soul, or the flesh with the spirit: “Lo! I forgive thee, as Eternal God / Forgives” ?
Idylls of the King by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The first poet laureate in the modern sense.
Ben Jonson
The office of poet laureate did not become official until who was appointed, receiving a modest income from the king?
John Dryden
Tennyson’s epic about women’s rights that contains “Sweet and Low,” which shows the tender role of a mother, and “Tears, Idle Tears,” a melancholy reflection of death: “O Death in Life, the days that are no more.”
The Princess
Tennyson’s ballad that celebrates the courageous stand of Sir Richard Grenville in 1591: “I have only done my duty as a man is bound to do.”
“The Revenge”
Who is best remembered for the Sonnets from the Portuguese, probably the finest love poems in the English language? Also wrote “The Look.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
One of Robert Browning’s earliest and most famous dramatic monologues: “This grew; I gave commands; / Then all smiles stopped together.”
“My Last Duchess”
Which of the characters in Tennyson’s Idylls of the King is symbolic of Christ and the soul?
King Arthur
What poem did Tennyson request always be placed at the end of his works?
“Crossing the Bar”
In Idylls of the King, who used the sin of Lancelot and Guinevere to disrupt the Round Table for traitorous purposes?
Sir Modred
What poem, by Robert Browning, presents an optimistic view of old age as the climax of man’s experience?
“Rabbi Ben Ezra”
What dramatic poem by Robert Browning contains the lines “All service ranks the same with God” from “Song” and “God’s in his heaven–– / All’s right with the world” from “Morning Song”?
Pippa Passes
What poem by Robert Browning expresses a Christian faith in eternal life and a firm belief in being reunited with his wife after death?
“Prospice” (Latin for “look forward”)
In what poem does Matthew Arnold lament that his age is not an age of faith but an age characterized by skepticism, unbelief, and conflicting views in the areas of science and theology?
“Dover Beach”
In what poem does Arthur Hugh Clough express the truth that God is the only source of stability and strength?
“With Whom Is No Variableness, neither Shadow of Turning”
What former Christian wrote “With Whom Is No Variableness, neither Shadow of Turning” and “The Latest Decalogue”?
Arthur Hugh Clough
Who wrote “Song,” “The Descent from the Cross,” “Scourge, but Receive Me,” and “The Three Enemies” (“The Flesh,” The World,” and “The Devil”)?
Christina Rossetti
