Alfred, Lord Tennyson
(1809-1892)
Poems, Chiefly Lyrical
(1830)
Death of Arthur Henry Hallam; In
Memoriam (1832-42; 1850)
Idylls of the King (1st. four
books) 1859--On the Origin of Species;
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
1. Motif of individual isolation
2. Value of Duty and Work vs Retirement
3. Melancholy--the elegiac mood
4. Dramatic technique--Dramatic Monologue: A lyric
poem in which one
person speaks to an identifiable but silent listener at a moment of dramatic tension. The setting is made clear, and the character of the speaker is
revealed.