| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Dickens | poor government clerk in debts; shoe shine factory; self studied at museum and theaters |
| Dickens | Owned All the Year Round |
| Tennyson | early education in large library owned by father, who was a clergyman; cambridge uni; friends with Arthur Henry Hallam; Poet Laureate in 1850; Baron in 1884 |
| Tennyson | In Memoriam, A.H.H.; Lady of Shallot: Ulysses |
| Robert Browning | self study in 6,000 book library; dramatic monologue guy |
| Robert Browning | My Last Duchess; Life in a Love; Love Among the Ruins |
| Elizabeth Browning | no formal education, intense self study; know better than her husband; frail health, reclusive; secret courtship with Robert; 44 love poems |
| Elizabeth Browning | Sonnet 43 |
| Arnold | Themes regarding Isolation and alienation; developed social conscience at Oxford; improved education as Inspector of Schools; 1853 Poems brought fame; 1867 New Poems, wrote literary criticism |
| Arnold | Dover Beach |
| Bronte | From famous literary families; home education; published under pseudonyms; Dark Romanticism, Wuthering Heights; died of cold from brother's funeral |
| Bronte | Remembrance |
| Kipling | Works celebrated British Empire, responsibilities of world dominion; praised imperialism; born in India but raised as English; work as journalist; First English writer awarded Noble Prize for Literature in 1907 |
| Kipling | The Widow at Windsor |
| Hardy | Last of great Victorians; fictional setting based on his birthplace Wessex on Dorset; elaborate on pessimistic view of life; imagery for psychological states of characters; transition from Victorian to Modernist; nonpoetic language, odd rhymes |
| Hardy | Darkling Thrush; "Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?" |
| Hopkins | most innovative poet of Victorian period; didnt publish after during lifetime; rebellious, went to Oxford; Catholic Priest, against Anglican Protestants; Inscape, his own ideology: died of typhoid |
| Hopkins | God's Grandeur; Spring and Fall |
| Housman | Solitary habits, harsh self-discipline; poems full of gentle regret; grew up in Worcestershire, mother died when he was 12; Oxford; Despair over unrequited love, shows bitter undertones in poems; Studied Greek and Latin while working in Patent Office; Professor of Latin at University College in London; emotionless intellectual, but poems shows deep feelings |
| Housman | To an Athlete Dying Young; When i was One and Twenty |
| Aesthetes Philosophers and Essayists | John Ruskin, Walter Pater, Max Beerbohm |
| Poets and Critics | Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Algernon Charles Swinburne |
| Dramatists | Oscar Wilde |
| Oscar Fingal | born in Dublin, Ireland and died in Paris, France; Father was prosperous doctor and mother was political poet and translator of Gothic novels (well devoted to her); Scholarship to Trinity College in Dublin, Magdalen College, Oxford; won Newdigate Prize for poetry age 24 |
| Oscar Fingal | wrote one thing from every genre, very versatile |
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