ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The Defence of Lucknow-Ballads, and Other Poems-Alfred Tennyson, Book, etext.

Detailed explanation-2: -This chapter presents some stanzas from the poem The Defence of Lucknow written by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

Detailed explanation-3: -The poet is Alfred Tennyson, who after the events of 1857 wrote The Defence Of Lucknow. It’s for the British, against the “rebels".

Detailed explanation-4: -The Defence of Lucknow is a war poem set in the background of the Indian Mutiny of 1857 that saw the siege of Lucknow, sustained assault and eventual relief of the British “Residency” i.e British governmental headquarters in India’s northern city of Lucknow, part of 1857–58 Indian Mutiny against British rule.