Features and Themes of Victorian Poetry
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Tennyson
Early work is nostalgic and melancholic– he had a fascination with the past that is linked to a sense of ailenation
Tennyson
Many poems are elegiac– lamentations for the transience of life
Tennyson
Later verse tends to espouse typical Victorian optimism and imperialist pride
Tennyson
Fond of traditional dictions of poetry using archaisms, periphrasis, epithets, and allusions
Tennyson
Looks wistfully bask at the past
Tennyson
Accepts Romantic notion that poetry is inspirational, but shares the Victorian preference that poetry is purposeful
Tennyson
Verse often exploits poetry for moral edification and propagation of ideas
Tennyson
Approaches poetry like a seer, writing in slow, majestic lines
Tennyson
Early poems preoccupied by a desired withdrawal from an uncongenial world
PRB
Name comes from the rejection of Raphael’s Transfiguration which idolized beauty by imposing spirituality
PRB
Restore naturalness and simplicity
PRB
Paintings
1) accuracy of detail
2) rejected moral seriousness
3) reclaimed freedom of subject matter
1) accuracy of detail
2) rejected moral seriousness
3) reclaimed freedom of subject matter
Instress
Energy that generated inscape and the perception aroused by inscape
Victorian
Look back wistfully to the past while confronting new industry
Victorian
Inherit Romantic conception of poet as prophet
Victorian
Accept Romantic notion that poetry is inspirational
Victorian
React against the utilitarian notion that poetry is only for pleasure
Victorian
Preoccupied by the role of the poet and function of poetry
Victorian
Embrace notion that poetry is a guide for life
Victorian
Attempt to redefine God in a more mystical fashion
Victorian
Struggle with a loss of faith
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