ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Tennyson had his beginning in Romanticism; his poetry was replete with the Romantic norms: melancholy, nature, and dreams. It is clear that Byron and Coleridge and Keats suggested heavily in Tennyson’s early volumes, Shelley and Wordsworth also contributed to Tennyson’s formation of style.

Detailed explanation-2: -Alfred, Lord Tennyson, in full Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson of Aldworth and Freshwater, (born August 6, 1809, Somersby, Lincolnshire, England-died October 6, 1892, Aldworth, Surrey), English poet often regarded as the chief representative of the Victorian age in poetry.

Detailed explanation-3: -Tennyson was the grand old man of Victorian poetry, holding the Laureateship for 42 years and famous for In Memoriam A.H.H., The Idylls of The King and Maud, and Other Poems – the last of which includes ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’.

Detailed explanation-4: -Tennyson also wrote some notable blank verse including Idylls of the King, “Ulysses", and “Tithonus".