To what extent Tennyson is a romantic poet?
Date Submitted: 05/02/2004 03:04:41
Lord Alfred Tennyson, a consummate poetic artist, consolidated and refined the tradition bequeathed to him by his predecessors in the Romantic Movement (especially Wordsworth, Byron, Keats, Shelley). Beginning in the after math of Romantic Movement, Tennyson's development as a poet is a romantic progression from introverted and inert states of mind towards emancipated consciousness.
The growth of consciousness, and the relationship between the self and the world beyond, are fundamental concerns of romantic poetry and
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as it were, the land and the people who lived on it.
Though Tennyson does not share some traits of the Romantics in his poetry like 'the negative capability' of Keats or seeing Nature as a living being influencing human soul or teaching man moral lessons, there are many qualities of the Romantic movement that we come across in Tennyson's poetry. Had Tennyson been born a century earlier, he would have been a great Romantic.
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