Tennyson as a representative Victorian Poet.

Alfred Lord Tennyson was a true representative of The Victorian Age

Alfred Lord Tennyson was a true representative of The Victorian Age, the Age of reformation. England named this age after the name of Queen Victoria. England witnessed growth science and industry during this period. The reforms in this period not only affected the social, political but also arts. He was born at Somersby, Lincolnshire in England in 1809. Changes that occurred during this age affected greatly the works by Tennyson. He selected the subjects from medieval legends to classical myths and from domestic lives to the observations from nature. John Keats and other romantic poets greatly inspired his works. He was the master of rhythm. We have seen In ‘Break, Break, Break’ he emphasized the relentless sadness of the subject matter. He turned on the musical quality of words to make it sensitive. The poet lived in a period of scientific advancement and we can see conflict between scientific theories and religious faith. Tennyson represented the Victorian poetry and he preferred dramatic monologue as a mode of expression.

Works:

• Lady Clara Vere de Vere (1832)
• St. Simeon Stylites (1833)
• From Poems (1842):
• The Two Voices (1834)
• "Ulysses" (1833)
• From The Princess; A Medley (1847)
• In Memoriam A.H.H. (1849)
• Ring Out, Wild Bells (1850)
• The Eagle (1851)
• From Maud; A Monodrama (1855/1856)
• The Charge of the Light Brigade (1854)
• From Enoch Arden and Other Poems (1862/1864)
• Flower in the crannied wall (1869)
• The Window – Song cycle with Arthur Sullivan (1871)
• Harold (1876)
• Idylls of the King (composed 1833–1874)
• Becket (1884)
• Locksley Hall Sixty Years after (1886)
• Crossing the Bar (1889)
• The Foresters – a play with incidental music by Arthur Sullivan (1891)