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Tennyson and Browning are Victorian period poets. title="The Victorian Age. Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition at Infoplease.com"
href="http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/ent/A0858005.html">Victorianism differs
from href="http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/rom.html">Romanticism
in dramatic ways. For instance, Romanticism presented an idealized view of nature and of
the joys of simple rural living. Even when death and suffering were the topic, as in
Wordsworth's "The Ruined Cottage," it is presented in an embellished, idealized way with
suffering on a transcended moral plane. For Victorians, nature became a cold hard
reality; Tennyson even refers to nature’s bloodied
claws.

Another instance of differences is that in the
Romantic period, society was feeling the expansiveness of a rising industrial based
middle class and the poetry of the Romantics reflected this expansive feeling, with a
focus on individualism and self. By the Victorian period, society was feeling the crush
of the reality of an industrialized urban culture with the division between the wealthy
and impoverished growing wider and cities becoming overburdened with laborers coming
from the farm to make a living. This urban reduced the moral oversight provided by small
communities and close relationships, so poverty, violence and immorality of all kinds
grew at astounding rates, triggering the emphasis on Victorian moral purity and some
prevalent topics in Victorian poetry.

This, coupled with
the discoveries and theories in science, which added to the further weakening of
Christian belief, led Victorian poetry down the path of realism and protest, whereas
Romantic poetry was that of idealization and celebration of expansiveness. Within this
spirit, the Victorians favored the influence of Medieval and Baroque poets, along with
classical poets like Virgil, while Romantics had favored the Renaissance and classical
Greeks like Aristotle.

Tennyson displayed these Victorian
qualities in his writing. Although at times he chose topics that might harmonize with
Romantic period sensibilities, as with “Ulysses,” he more often chose topics protesting
contemporary life and explored society’s psychological aspects, as in “Mariana,” and
that presented moral themes, like the moral theme of the role of woman in “The Lady of
Shalott.” Some of his pressing social concerns were the role and treatment of children
and women and politics; he advocated higher education for women and spoke out on issues
like the Crimean War.

Tennyson had strong Christian
religious beliefs and was personally and philosophically dismayed over the sciences of
evolution, geography and such that were seeming to contradict a literal meaning for the
Judeo-Christian idea of Creation as found in the Bible. His poetry explored the meaning
and import of sciences to Christian faith, concluding that there was no need for a loss
of faith, which comforted his Christian readers.

Robert
Browning displayed Victorian qualities in his writing in that he explored the cognition
and psychology behind some of the moral questions of the day, e.g., “Porphyria’s Lover”
explores the cognition of a madman (consciousness) and the psychology of power and
dominance. Browning is noted for his use of dramatic monologue, differing from a
soliloquy by the presence of a listener in the text, while the soliloquy is the private
musings of a character alone in the text.

Browning’s
explorations of social topics--using violence and immorality as in society--including
scientific and religious topics, raise more questions than they answer, like about art
and morality. Browning builds a link from the Victorians to the upcoming Modernist poets
like T. S. Elliot, thus he is considered a “protomodernist,” anticipating future major
developments.