Knowra Victorian poetry Victorian poetry Victorian poetry is poetry produced during Queen Victoria’s reign, from 1837 to 1901. It ranges across inherited verse forms and experiments shaped by industrial, religious, social, and personal change.
Dramatic monologue : A poem in which a fictional speaker addresses a silent listener, revealing character through speech. Browning and Tennyson made this form a defining way to explore divided Victorian selves.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson : An English poet whose works include “In Memoriam A.H.H.” and “The Charge of the Light Brigade.” As Poet Laureate, he became a prominent public voice while writing about grief, faith, and duty.
In Memoriam A.H.H. : A poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, published in 1850, mourning his friend Arthur Henry Hallam. Its elegiac sequence turns private grief into an inquiry about faith and scientific change.
Romantic poetry : Poetry associated with late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Romanticism, emphasizing imagination, nature, and individual experience. Victorian poets inherited Romantic forms while confronting a different industrial and intellectual climate.
The Victorian novel : A long prose narrative produced during the nineteenth-century reign of Queen Victoria. Poets and novelists shared audiences and addressed the period’s social transformations.
Robert Browning : An English poet known for dramatic monologues such as “My Last Duchess.” His speakers expose their motives indirectly, giving Victorian poetry a distinctive psychological method.
Aurora Leigh : A verse novel by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, published in 1856, about a woman poet’s life and ambitions. It makes women’s authorship and social reform central subjects for an ambitious long poem.
Modernist poetry : Poetry associated with early twentieth-century modernism, marked by formal experimentation and responses to modernity. Its breaks with inherited poetic conventions sharpen the contrast with Victorian forms.
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood : An English artistic group founded in 1848 that sought intense detail and medieval-inspired subjects. Its poets and painters joined sensuous imagery to medievalism and resistance to convention.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning : An English poet whose works include “Sonnets from the Portuguese” and “Aurora Leigh.” Her poetry joined intimate emotion to questions of women’s independence and literary labor.
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