“Dissemination of Education for Knowledge, Science and Culture”� -Shikshan Maharshi Dr. Bapuji Salunkhe �Shri Swami Vivekanand Shikshan Sanstha, Kolhapur�Raje Ramrao Mahavidyalaya�Jath, Dist-Sangli, (MH) �BA III Sem-VI
English Poetry�Topic�The Lady of Shallot
20th July, 2021�Asst. Prof. R. S. Bansode
Victorian Poetry
INTRODUCTION:
-The Victorian Era succeeded the great Romantic Age.
-Queen Victoria reigned during a long period 1837 to 1901s
-Victorian Poetry from 1837 to 1901 (64 years)
-A period of considerable and comprehensive changes and advancement in European continent.
-Advancements in Natural Science, industry, education and literary output:
Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
Impacts of Industrial Revolution
Victorian Poetry
INTRODUCTION:
--The Victorian poetry addressed issues such as patriotism, religious faith, science, social reforms, social problems, social unrest, social upheavels, economic hardships and problems, destitute life.
-Experimental poetry (new genres, innovative forms)
-Victorian Age was dominated by Poetry, fiction and reflective prose :
Victorian Poetry
Poetry: Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Matthew Arnold, Elizabeth Browning, Swinburne, William Morris, A H Clough
Fiction: Charles Dickens, William Thackeray
Reflective Prose : Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, Walter Pater, Macaulay, Mill, and so on.
Victorian Poetry
Victorian poetry is divided into two major groups:
1.The High Victorian Poetry
2. PreRaphaelites
Victorian Poetry
1.The High Victorian Poetry:
-Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Browning, Matthew Arnold and G M Hopkins
-Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) :
(Age of Tennyson)- Most important poet of Victorian Age, poet Laureate of England by Queen Victoria. Poem- "Ulysses" "Break, Break, Break" "The Lotus Eaters", "Song: the Winds, As At Their Hour of Birth“
��������Ulysses: �a poem of unyielding spirit of adventure, discovery and achievement for which the Victorian Era was well known.��In Memorium�reflection on the doubts crated by changes and upheavals in the life of nation
Victorian Poetry
-Robert Browning: broke the conventional Victorian poetic style, Dramatic Monologue. "My Last Dutchess“
-Matthew Arnold-
influenced by Wordsworth, often considered as a precursor of the modernist revolution. "The Scholar Gypsy" "Dover Beach" "Thyrses"
Victorian Poetry
2. PreRaphaelites:
-A group of artist
-a member of a brotherhood of artists formedin England in 1848 to restore the artistic principles and practices regarded as characteristic of Italian art
-a modern artist dedicated to restoring early Renaissance ideals or methods
-Group of English artists who protested the conventional academic art
-Loved simplicity and less sophistication
Victorian Poetry
2. PreRaphaelites:
-Christiana Rossetti, Dante Rossetti, A. C. Swinburne, William Morris.
-Captured sensuous religious feelings and dreamlike mood
-Christiana's Rossetti's The Blessed Damozel (1850)
-Critics thought PreRaphaelite poetry as "Fleshly School of Poetry“
- (Fleshly means 'not spiritual' 'worldly')