How far does Tennyson's "In Memoriam" reflect the spirit of the Victorian Age? ... Unlike Arnold, he expressed a compromising attitude to his age and its intricate problems. Tennyson, we find, in his Ulysses, The Lotos Eaters, The Charge of the Light Brigade, holds such a sort of view which is supposed to find a middle ground. ... Because of the quality to look for a middle ground, Tennyson is considered as a compromising craftsman who does neither yield to the crisis of his age nor possess a carefree attitude towards the problems, rather keeps compromising and finding a solution. ... ...

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The Education Act of 1870 made elementary education compulsory for everyone between the ages of 5 and 13. ... To some writers, the alienation they felt and depicted was an exploration of the individual sensibility in a world which it was felt was becoming ever more standardized and uniform, an age of the masses. ... Indeed, it is true that readers need a background awareness of psychology, anthropology, history and aesthetics to master some of the literature of the early years of Modernism: T.S. ... Poetry to 1945 Queen Victoria died in 1901, but most of the certainties of the Victorian age ha...

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Early poems such as those by Homer emphasized the sounds of words(Homer, Illiad). ... Ghazals predate both the sonnet and Haiku and originated during the 12th century in the middle east. ... The Beats were a group of artists and writers who rejected the martialism and consumerism of the age. ... At the age of three years, Ginsberg had to watch his mother be committed to a sanatarium for the first time. ... It was not until Ginsberg reached the age of thirteen that his mother illness would take hold of Ginsberg's life. ...

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Early Life and Education Born in St. Louis, Missouri in the United States, he moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 (at age 25) and was naturalized as a British subject in 1927 at age 39. Eliot was born into a middle class family originally from New England. ... Louis; his mother Charlotte Champe Stearns (1843-1929) wrote poetry and was a social worker, a new profession in the early twentieth century. ... He was aware of this even early in his career. ...

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