Tennysson 's poetry-uopshteno

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Introduction

Victorian literature is the literature produced during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901) and corresponds to the Victorian era. It forms a link and transition between the writers of the romantic period and the very different literature of the 20th century. The 19th century is often regarded as a high point in British literature as well as in other countries such as France, the United States and Russia. Books, and novels in particular, became ubiquitous, and the "Victorian novelist" created legacy works with continuing appeal.

Poetry in a sense settled down from the upheavals of the romantic era and much of the work of the time is seen as a bridge between this earlier era and the modernist poetry of the next century. Alfred Lord Tennyson held the poet laureateship for over forty years and his verse became rather stale by the end but his early work is rightly praised. Some Victorian poetry highly regarded at the time such as Invictus is now seen as jingoistic and bombastic but Tennyson's "Charge of the Light Brigade" was a fierce criticism of a famous military blunder; a pillar of the establishment not failing to attack the establishment. Comic verse abounded in the Victorian era. Magazines such as Punch magazine and Fun magazine teemed with humorous invention and were aimed at a well-educated readership. The most famous collection of Victorian comic verse is the Bab Ballads. The reclaiming of the past was a major part of Victorian literature with an interest in both classical literature but also the medieval literature of England. The Victorians loved the heroic, chivalrous stories of knights of old and they hoped to regain some of that noble, courtly behaviour and impress it upon the people both at home and in the wider empire. The best example of this is Alfred Tennyson's "Idylls of the King" which blended the stories of King Arthur, particularly those by Thomas Malory, with contemporary concerns and ideas...

Contents :

Introduction 3
1.1 Tennyson, one amasing biography 4
1.2 The art of Tennyson's poetry 7
1.3 "The Princess" and "In Memoriam" 9
1.4 Poet laureate on the Isle of Wight 11
1.5 Idylls of the King 12
1.6 Tennyson's poetry 14
1.7 Friendship with the Queen 18
1.8 The people's poet 19
Conclusion 22
References 24