Comparative study of Tennyson and Browning

#comparative study on Alfred Lord       Tennyson and Robert Browning :

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        Here, is my blog on comparative study on two gigantic poetic personalities of the Victorian period, Alfred Lord Tennyson and Robert Browning, as a task given by Hariyani Vaidehima'am, so let's see..... 

        The period from 1832 to 1901 is known as the age of victoria period. During this period Queen Victoria developed much literary forms. So this age in English literature is known as the 'Victorian age'. During this period many great writers gave their best contribution to English age. Tennyson and Browning are the prominent poet of the age. 

# comparison between Alfred Lord Tennyson and Robert Browning :

      Comparison is not a novel phenomenon in life and literature. Since his advent on earth, man has been comparing different things. In literature, it has long been recognized as a helpful method of evaluating different works of art, and a manner of estimating literary figures. The importance of comparison cannot therefore, be denied but it poses a great problem when the objects compared are poles apart. The same difficulty had been faced while comparing Alfred Lord Tennyson and Robert Browning, the two gigantic poetic personalities of the Victorian period. 

   Robert Browning 

• Robert Browning (7 May 1812 - 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of the dramatic monologue made him one of the foremost Victorian poets.

• His poems are known for their irony,characterization,dark humour, social commentary,historical settings, and syntax.

• Browning's early career began promisingly, but was not success.

• His reputation took more than a decade to recover, during which time the he moved away from the Shelleyan forms of his early period and developed a more personal style.

• The collection Dramatis personae and the book length epic poem The Ring and The Book followed,and made him a leading British poet.

• When Browning died in 1889,he was regarded as a sage and philosopher-poet who through his writing had made contributions to Victorian social and political discourse.

Alfred Tennyson

• Alfred Tennyson (6 August 1809-6 October 1892) was poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets

• Tennyson excelled at penning short lyrics, such as " Break, Break, Break","The charge of the Light Bridge","Tears,Idle Tears",and "Crossing the Bar".

• Much of his verse was based classical mythological Themes, such as Ulysses.

• A number of phrases from Tennyson's work have become commonplaces of the English language , Including "Nature, red in tooth and claw","It's better to have loved and lost /Than never to have loved at all"

• He is the ninth most frequently qouted writer in the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.

# Differentiate The Victorian Era and Romantic Era, How they are difference

  Victorian Era 

• In the history of the United Kingdom, the Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's reign,from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.

• Revival of the style of medieval romances, and the influence of Header ,Schiller,Goethe.

• In Victorian era there were used Neoclassical style, Romantic themes,Deep sense of mystery and wonder, passion, imagination as well as  emphasis on originality and inspiration.

• There were some famous works like:

1. The castle of Indolence(1748)
2.  The Progress of Poesy (1757)
3. The Bard (1757)
4. The Task (1785)
5. The Castaway (1799)
6. Song of Innocence (1789)          

• Dark Themes of hysterical passions, revenge, murder, Medieval settings, Medieval castle, dungeons, sliding panels, etc supernatural elements.

  Romantic Era

• Romantic Era  was an artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850.

•  Experimentation with poetic Form.

• The Romantics had a huge crush on nature. These guys loved trees,flowers,mountains,clouds, crags,birds...you name it.As long as it was outdoors,they loved it.

• Ruins and Relics of the Ancient Past,Rebellion,Heroism,Emotion,Sense and Sensibility, Sublime is also the characteristics of this age.

• The French Revolution and The Industrial Revolution also play a huge role in this age.

# Difference between Charles Dickens and George Eliot

Charles Dickens 

• Charles Dickens was an English Writer and social critics. He created some of the World's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.

• Dickens enjoyed a wider popularity during his lifetime than had any previous author. Much in his work could appeal to the simple and the sophisticated,to the poor and to the queen, and technological developments as well as the qualities of his work enabled his fame to spread worldwide very quickly.

• The most abundantly comic of English author, he was much more than a great entertainer.The range,compassion,and intelligence of his apprehension of his society and its shortcoming enriched his novel.

George Eliot

• Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot,was English novelist,poet,Journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian Era.
• Her character and her descriptions of English rular life. 
• Her major works included: