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Title: VICTORIAN POETRY


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VICTORIAN POETRY
  • POETRY WAS A LUCRATIVE LITERARY ENTERPRISE DURING
    THE VICTORI-AN AGE, OFTEN SELLING AS WELL AS THE
    BEST-SELLING FICTION.

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VICTORIAN POETRY (cont.)
  • POETRY MATTERED, AND LONG NAR-RATIVE POEMS WERE
    PARTICULARLY POPULAR.

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ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
  • THE MOST POPULAR POET OF HIS DAY POET LAUREATE
    AFTER WORDS-WORTH, HIS FAME WAS ENHANCED BY HIS
    COLORFUL APPEARANCE.

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TENNYSON (cont.)
  • TENNYSON WROTE IN A DIGNIFIED BLANK VERSE THAT HE
    WORKED HARD TO DEVELOP, AND HE WAS ESPECIALLY
    INSPIRED BY THE CLASS-ICAL PAST.

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TENNYSON (cont.)
  • HIS MIND WAS DRAWN TO STATES OF WEARINESS
    MELANCHOLY ISOLA-TION THAT WERE A COUNTERPOINT TO
    THE ENERGY DYNAMISM OF THE AGE.

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ROBERT BROWNING
  • INFLUENCED BY PERCY SHELLEY, AT AGE 14 HE BECAME
    AN ATHEIST A LIBERAL, THOUGH HE LATER GREW AWAY
    FROM BOTH.

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BROWNING (cont.)
  • EARLY IN HIS CAREER HE WAS MUCH LESS APPRECIATED
    AS A POET THAN HIS WIFE, ELIZABETH BARRETT, BUT
    BY THE 1860S HE WAS CONSIDERED THE RIVAL OF
    TENNYSON.

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BROWNING (cont.)
  • BROWNING IS ESPECIALLY REGARD- ED FOR HIS
    INNOVATIONS IN THE DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE, IN WHICH
    THE WORDS OF A SPEAKER OTHER THAN THE POET MUST
    BE ANALYZED TO DETERMINE THE POETS MEAN-ING.

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BROWNING (cont.)
  • UNLIKE TENNYSONS SMOOTH, POL-ISHED, ELEVATED
    VERSE, HIS STYLE IS VERY UN-VICTORIAN, BEING
    DIS-CORDANT, COLLOQUIAL, FULL OF UNEXPECTED
    JUXTAPOSITIONS.

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BROWNING (cont.)
  • THOUGH SEEMINGLY UNLIKE OTHER VICTORIAN POETS, HE
    HAS MUCH IN COMMON W/ PROSE WRITERS OF THE DAY IN
    HIS EMPHASIS ON THE GROTESQUE ON REVEALING THE
    COMPLEXITY OF HUMAN MOTIVES THE WORKINGS OF THE
    MIND.

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BROWNING (cont.)
  • PROBABLY HIS MOST VICTORIAN QUALITY IS HIS
    EXUBERANCE ENERGY.

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MATTHEW ARNOLD
  • IN ADDITION TO HIS LITERARY CA-REER, ARNOLD SPENT
    35 YRS. AS AN INSPECTOR OF SCHOOLS, WHICH HE SAW
    AS IMPORTANT WORK DEALING W/ HIS COUNTRYS
    GREATEST NEEDA SOUND SYSTEM OF EDUCATION FOR THE
    MIDDLE CLASS.

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ARNOLD (cont.)
  • OF HIS 40-YEAR LITERARY CAREER, THE 1850S WERE
    DEVOTED PRIMARI-LY TO POETRY. OFTEN AT HIS BEST
    WHEN WRITING ABOUT NATURE, HE USUALLY RECORDS HIS
    OWN EXPER-IENCES, FEELINGS OF LONELINESS
    ISOLATION, SADNESS DESPAIR, AND SO FORTH.

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A. E. HOUSMAN
  • WHILE EMPLOYED FOR 10 YRS. AS A PATENT OFFICE
    CLERK, HOUSMAN STUDIED THE GREEK ROMAN
    CLASS-ICS, EVENTUALLY BECOMING A PRO-FESSOR OF
    LATIN AT CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY.

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HOUSMAN (cont.)
  • HIS MOST FAMOUS WORK IS A SHROP-SHIRE LAD (1896),
    A SERIES OF SPARE, NOSTALGIC VERSES EXPLORING
    SUCH THEMES AS THE BEAUTY OF NATURE, UNREQUITED
    LOVE, THE TRANSIENCE OF YOUTH, GRIEF, DEATH.

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HOUSMAN (cont.)
  • BECAUSE OF ITS NOSTALGIC DEPIC-TION OF BRAVE
    ENGLISH SOLDIERS, THE BOOK GAINED GREAT
    POPULAR-ITY DURING WORLD WAR I.

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GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS
  • A CATHOLIC PRIEST ONE OF THE GREATEST VICTORIAN
    POETS, HE IS KNOWN FOR HIS EXPERIMENTS W/
    LANGUAGE RHYME ESPECIALLY SPRUNG RHYTHM.

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HOPKINS (cont.)
  • IN SPRUNG RHYTHM, LINES HAVE A SET NUMBER OF
    STRESSES, BUT THE NUMBER PLACEMENT OF THE UN-
    STRESSED SYLLABLES VARIES GREAT-LY.

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HOPKINS (cont.)
  • REGARDED AS A PIONEER OF MOD-ERN LITERATURE, HIS
    POEMS WERE NOT PUBLISHED UNTIL ALMOST 30 YEARS
    AFTER HIS DEATH.

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LEWIS CARROLL
  • THE PSEUDONYM OF CHARLES L. DODGSON
    MATHEMATICIAN, ANGLI-CAN DEACON, PIONEERING
    PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHER, AUTHOR OF ALICE IN
    WONDERLAND THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, WHICH
    INCLUDED SOME CLASSIC EXAMPLES OF NON-SENSE VERSE.

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