The Victorian Age of Literature

The Victorian Age lasted from 1837 to 1901. Ironically, Queen Victoria lived from 1837 to 1901. By the beginning of the Victorian period, the Industrial Revolution, as this shift was called, had created profound economic and social changes, including a mass migration of workers to industrial towns, where they lived in new urban slums. But the changes arising out of the Industrial Revolution were just one small group of radical changes taking place in mid- and late-nineteenth-century Britain. Among …

…-44). 'In Memoriam' is probably the greatest work ever published by Tennyson. Some say it's the uncertainty of the poem that makes it such a classic. The twentieth century poet T.S. Eliot said of it, 'Its faith is a very poor thing, but its doubt is a very intense experience.' One thing is know for certain, Tennyson's artistic contribution to the world of Victorian Literature is one that will not soon be forgotten.