The Victorian Period Flashcards
he was the voice of his people expressing in exquisite poetry their doubts and their faith, their grief, and their triumphs.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- It was a collection of elegies written out of profound personal grief over the death of his friend, Arthur Henry Hallam.
- This poem moves from universal doubt to universal faith in God, from personal to universal sorrow, and ends in a calm note of peace and hope in God.
In Memoriam
- He carries a mission of faith and courage in a world
of doubt and uncertainty. He is not merely an entertaining poet. His effect on the reader is positive and stimulating.
Robert Browning
It is a dramatic monologue. The title comes from Latin and means ‘to look forward.’ In the poem, the speaker talks about looking forward and facing death.
Prospice
He won distinction both as a poet and as an essayist. In
all the works he was concerned about the social and moral problems of his age.
Matthew Arnold
- It is written in a lighter mood, although it contains a note of sadness at the thought that things can never be as we want them to be.
- Based on a Philippines legend about a woman
who married a merman but returned to her village.
The Forsaken Merman
She was a celebrated Victorian poet, famous not only for her love sonnets to her husband but her use of poetry to address social issues of the day.
Elizabeth Barret Browning
- It is a collection of forty-four love sonnets written for her, then-future husband Robert Browning.
- Robert’s nickname for Elizabeth: “My little Portuguese.”
Sonnets from Portuguese
He had one of his feet amputated because of tuberculosis of the bone. He lived on to be a newspaper editor and literary critic.
William Ernest Henly
This poem depicts the poet’s attempt to motivate himself when there is no hope at all.
Invictus
