1. Tennyson

2. Life Son of rector, Lincolnshire
Educated at Louth, Trinity & Cambridge
Brilliant, not idle, experiment
Representative writer of his period
Inspired by Keats
Friend Arthur Hallam
Poet Laureate 1850

3. Works Poems -1830, 32,42 Timbuctoo - 1829
The Princess – 1847 (equality of sexes)
In Memorium-1850 (philosophic, elegy)
Maud and other poems (love, hatred, criticizes materialism)
Locksley Hall
Idylls of the King – 1859, 69, 89 (allegory)

4. Elegiac tone – Lotus Eaters
Dramatic monologue- Ulysses
Allegory- The Palace of Art
Blank verse- Dora (Wordsworthian Style)
Verse drama – not very successful
Skilled use of metre/ experimental
Sound, alliteration, vowel music
Coining phrases
Poet prophet
Worrier of Nature and men
Sage, moralist
Skillful, manipulator of language
Conscientious Craftsman

5. Style Early poems not great
Musical language with pictorial suggestiveness
Great lyric writer
Richness of fancy, romance
Imagery different, uses colour image like Keats
Perfection of form
Not deeply passionate
Great – blank verse
Diction never careless
Simple not ornate
Elaborate stanzas – lines swing with mood
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