ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Maud, poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, composed in 1854 and published in Maud and Other Poems in 1855. The poem’s morbid narrator tells of his father’s suicide following financial ruin. Lonely and miserable, he falls in love with Maud, the daughter of the wealthy neighbour who led his father into bankruptcy.

Detailed explanation-2: -Mud is a 2012 American coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Jeff Nichols.

Detailed explanation-3: -Tennyson wrote ‘In Memoriam A.H.H. ‘ as a tribute to his beloved friend Arthur Henry Hallam, who died aged 22.

Detailed explanation-4: -The best-known poems by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, included “The Charge of the Light Brigade” and “Crossing the Bar.” His longer works included In Memoriam, inspired by his grief over the untimely death of a friend, and Idylls of the King, based on Arthurian legend.

Detailed explanation-5: -In Memoriam A.H.H. was written over a period of 17 years, from 1833 to 1850. Over the course of 133 cantos, it explores Alfred Lord Tennyson’s profound grief at the death of his close friend, Arthur Henry Hallam.