Lesson 2: Victorian Period Flashcards
carries a mission of faith and courage in a world of doubt and uncertainty. He is not merely an entertaining poet. His effect upon the reader is positive and stimulating.
ROBERT BROWNING
was the voice of his people. expressing in exquisite poetry their doubts and their faith, their griefs and their triumphs.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
• a poet and an essayist
• he was concerned about the social and moral problems of his age
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Her humane and liberal point of view manifests itself in her poems aimed at redressing many forms of social injustice, such as the slave trade in America, the labor of children in the mines and the mills of England, the oppression of the Italian people by the Austrians, and the restrictions forced upon women in 19th-century society
ELIZABETH BARETT BROWNING
-Known for careful workmanship and exquisite melody of her poems
-She excelled in works of fantasy, in poems for children, and in religious poetry.
CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI
expresses a philosophy that governed his life
was a poet whose work reflects the perplexity and religious doubt of mid-19th century England.
ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH
used a variety of poetic forms and techniques. His hospital poems significantly depart from the traditional themes and imagery of Victorian poetry
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY
