Académique Documents
Professionnel Documents
Culture Documents
The Development
Of Poetry
In The Victorian Age
The Victorian epoch was exceedingly
productive of literary work of a high quality, but,
except in the novel, the amount of actual innovation is
by no mean great. Writers were as a rule content to
work upon formal models, and the improvements they
did achieve were often dubious and unimportant.
Style:
In the case of poetry the more ornate
style was represented in Tennyson, who developed
artistic schemes of vowel music, alliteration, and other
devices in a manner quite unprecedented. The PreRaphaelites carried the method still further. In diction
Conclusion:
The major poets of the Victorian era
are Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) and Robert
Browning (1812-1889). Both are prolific and varied,
and their work defies easy classification.
Tennyson makes extensive use of
classical myth and Arthurian legend, and has been
praised for the beautiful and musical qualities of his
writing.
Browning's chief interest is in
people; he uses blank verse in writing dramatic
monologues in which the speaker achieves a kind of
self-portraiture: his subjects are both historical
individuals (Fra Lippo Lippi, Andrea del Sarto) and
representative types or caricatures (Mr. Sludge the
Medium).