Victorian age
woman in society; morbid themes/deaths etc.);
· His works:
Collection ,,Poems", ,,The Epic. Morte d'Arthur", ,,Idylls of a King", ,,The Holy Grail", ,,In Memoriam
A.H.H"
· Other important Victorian poets:
Robert Browning, Matthew Arnold, Gabriel and Christina Rossetti, Gerard Manley Hopkins
· Describe their works in general:
Influenced by Romanticism, all the works had sth dramatic and "dark", escaping from the industrial ugliness
into unspoilt beauty; poetry maintained sensuousness and imagination of the Romantic times; the great
problems of the day; Tennyson's favourite themes were conflict of religion and science; wrote much about
death and other morbid themes; Browning's works were full on monologues, psychological insight into
man's motives and passions; Rossetti's works have medieval subjects and forms (like ballad) and dreamy
melancholy; Hopkins focused on relationships with God
4. The Victorian novel and Charles Dickens
· What kind of trend is literary realism