1. Poetry of Victorian Era Poets
He is neither too melancholic like Arnold nor too optimistic like Robert Browning, another contemporary, in terms of the tone, mood and theme of his poetry. ... Many nineteenth-century critics affirm that the romantic poetry tended towards egotism and excessive subjectivity, instead the Victorian project found literary and artistic means of bridging a series of what they considered to be binary oppositions such as: self and society, personal and political, subject and objective; it is what Tennyson did in his poem, that is to say finding public uses for very private experiences without bec...
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