Talk on Alfred Tennyson and Robert Browning

Talk on Alfred Tennyson and Robert Browning

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Difference between Alfred  Tennyson and Robert Browning                                                                

             

Alfred Tennyson and Robert Browning both are the main and leading personalities of  Victorian Age and they are known as the representative poet of the Era. The period from 1832 to 1901 is known as the age of Victorian period.

Alfred Tennyson and Robert Browning belong to the Victorian age and they occupy a prominent place as a pre-eminent poet of their age. Both the poets apply new techniques and styles in poetry writing. But both these poets adopt their own style in their writing.They were also famous in Dramatic monologue.

Let's talk on both poets

Alfred Tennyson (6 August 1809 - 6 October 1892) :

Alfred Tennyson was poet laureate of Great Britain and during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remain one of the most popular British poet. He was raised to the peerage in 1884. For half a century Tennyson was not only a man and a poet, he was a voice, the voice of a whole people expressing their doubt and their faith, their griefs and their triumphs.

Robert Browning (7 May 1812- 12 Dec 18889) :

Robert Browning was English poet and playwright. Mastery of famous monologue made him foremost Victorian poets. His poems are known for their irony, characterization, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings and challenging vocabulary and syntax. He regarded as a sage and philosopher poet. Browning's critically most esteemed poems include the monologue childe foland to the Dark Tower came.

          

Difference between Alfred Tennyson and Robert Browning :

• Techniques and styles in poetry writing:

Browning tries to understand human nature, religion, and society properly. He studies the innermost psychology of characters.

Tennyson draws material from external specific realities, ideas, and objects and tries to express it through ornate language.

• Nature of expression: Browning's writings are always energetic.

Tennison's tone of expression is generally melancholic where he tends to give a touch of nostalgia. Their poetic concerns are hardly related. 

• Browning systematically depicts the essence of a character. 

Tennyson gives importance in inducing and endorsing a particular mood.

• Browning  logically reveals the essence of a person whereas,

Tennyson induce and plays a particular mood.

• Browning in his poetry tries to realize human nature, society and religion. Whereas, 

Tennyson recall the conscious mind an environment through ornate language.

• Tennyson as a source for his poetry, used many subjects from domestic conditions to observation of atmosphere. 

Whereas, Browning takes an immoral character and challenges us to find out the moral excellence.

Difference between Charles Dickens and George Eliot :

Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)

             Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are still widely read today.

      

George Eliot (22 November 1819 - 22 December 1880)

         Mary Ann Evans or Marian known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. 

Difference between Charles Dickens and George Eliot

• Charles Dickens, The adjective “Dickensian” calls most readily to mind two concepts: humour and melodrama. The term Dickensian is used to describe something that is reminiscent of Dickens and his writings, such as poor social conditions or comically repulsive characters.                                    
• Eliot’s reliance on melodrama, like her use of humour, is often overshadowed by discussions of the psychological and intellectual depth of her plots and characterisation.

• Charles Dickens's plots were carefully constructed, and he often wove elements from topical events into his narratives. Masses of the illiterate poor chipped in ha'pennies to have each new monthly episode read to them, opening up and inspiring a new class of readers. 

• Eliot’s novels often focus special attention on the narrator, and the week in Santa Cruz was no exception. Beyond the usual considerations of how closely the narrator’s views might coincide with Eliot’s, or how we might best identify the gender of the narrator, here discussion included the tone taken by that narrator.

• Dickens is often dismissed as flippancy on the part of the author, or an attempt to fill up the word count demanded by the serialisation process, 

• In Eliot’s works the same narrative tone tends to be taken as a distancing technique.

• George Eliot wrote seven novels, Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1862–63), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871–72) and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of which are set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight.

• Charles Dickens write novella A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist and Great Expectations are also frequently adapted and, like many of his novels, evoke images of early Victorian London. His 1859 novel A Tale of Two Cities is his best-known work of historical fiction

Difference between Romantic Era and Victorian Era

Victorian period is the period during the reign of Queen Victoria. The main difference between Romantic and Victorian poetry is that Romantic poets revered and adored nature whereas Victorian poets regarded nature as in a more realistic and less idealistic angel.

• The Romantic Age and Victorian Period had many similarities, but they had just as many or more differences.

• The period we are considering begins in the latter half of the reign of George third and ends with the accession of Victorian in 1837.

• Romantic era is An age of poetry.  Victorian age is An Age of prose.

• Rules of the Romantic Age didn't have a king or queen, but they did during the Victorian Period.

• Romantic literature includes a focus on the writer or narrator’s emotions and inner world. Victorian era focus on mass 

• In romantic age people Interest in the Rustic/Pastoral Life. Victorian age interested in myth and folklore.

• Romanticism is influenced by the industrial revolution, where the Victorian age is the Harrors of poverty.

• Romanticism is full of Idealism , the Victorian age is a realistic age.

• Romanticism is emotion and expressive/expressionism ,where the Victorian era is Restraint and shows reality .

                      

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