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The following poets, poems, guides, articles, and recordings survey the many poetries springing up during the Victorian era. Included are laureates and bestsellers, as well as marginalized poets recovered by 20th- and 21st-century readers.
Jan 5, 2016 · The ten Victorian poems that follow are all no longer than ten lines, and one is only two words long. 1. Tennyson, ‘The Eagle’. Subtitled ‘Fragment’, this brief piece was written in the early 1830s and published in 1851, the year after Tennyson’s annus mirabilis.
- Realism
- Focus on Masses
- Pessimism
- Science and Technology
- Questioning to God
- Sense of Responsibility
- Morality
- Interest in Medieval Myths & Folklore
- Use of Sensory Devices & Imagery
The Victorian Poetry was quite realistic in nature and quite less idealised as compared to the Romanic Poets who were idealists and believed in Art for the Art Sake. Nature, that was everything for the Romantics lost that idealised position in the Victorian era and became just a source of leisure and inspiration for the poets.
Romantic Poetry mainly focused on rural and rustic life. It is no way related to city life. On the other hand, Victorian poets used language as well as themes common to city life and thus wrote about the masses and for the masses.
As already discussed, Victorians were quite realistic and thus were more concerned about the reality rather than the ideal world. Due to the industrial revolution and advancement in science and technology, there was a drastic increase in the city population that gave rise to slums, poverty, unemployment, corruption diseases, deaths etc. Thus, Victo...
The advancement in science and inventions was welcomed by the Victorian poets. It made them believe that a man can find all solutions to his problems and sufferings. They made their readers believe that they should use science for their betterment.
It was an important feature of Victorian poetry. The development of empirical science, rationalism and radicalism led the people to give up religious thoughts and be more sceptic. Moreover, corruption in the Church, defining the morality of Priests, etc also led the people to question the religious institutions.
The Romantics believed in “return in nature”. A number of the Romantics did not like the city life and instead of giving voice to the victims of industrialisation, they left the city life. On the other hand, Victoria poets took the responsibility of social reform and gave voice to the commoners by living with them.
Though morality saw a steep decline in the Victorian Era, a number of poets tried to retain it by encouraging the people to be honest and noble.
The Victoriansshowed great favour towards Medieval Literature. They loved mythical and chivalrous anecdotes of Medieval Knights, Courtly Love etc. This interest is on contrary to the of Romantics as the latter loved classical myths and legends.
The poets of the preceding era used imagery vividly. However, the Victorians also used sensory devices to describe the abstract scenes of chaos between Religion and Science.
Feb 16, 2021 · “Victorian poetry” is a term that does not quite coincide with the reign of Queen Victoria—a reign that began with the death of her uncle, William IV, in 1837 and lasted until her own death some 63 years later on January 22, 1901. The great poets who wrote most or all of their work while…
Poetry written in England during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901) may be referred to as Victorian poetry. Following Romanticism, Victorian poets continued many of the previous era’s main themes,...
May 24, 2019 · These 22 beauitful Victorian poems have, for one reason or another, stuck in my mind. Love, death, magic - they cover a range of topics.
Robert Browning (1812–1889) and Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892) were notable poets in Victorian England. [9] Thomas Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life, but did not publish a collection until 1898. [13] The poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) was published posthumously in 1918.
