What were the major thematic concerns of Victorian poetry with special reference to Tennyson and Browning?
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While romantic poetry is a movement , Victorian poetry is a chronological phenomenon. Consequently , if a broad group of characteristics such as a rebellious spirit , a spontaneity of effusion , a return to nature , an interest in the self and a luxuriant sensibility may be said to characterized almost all romantic poetry , no such effluence of poetic characteristics may be predicated of Victorian poetry . Not only is the display of poetic tallest from the fourth decade of the eighteenth century to its end prolific , but also subtly varied in the wide range of its colouring .Even though they imbibed many qualities from the romantic , and even though romanticism was the strongest and most obvious feature of many Victorian poets , the spiritual change and the atmosphere of another age modified their art in various ways . Their poetry displays either a more disciplined and elaborate perfection of form , or an interest in emotions which are not narrowed down to that of the subjective self , or an imagination which also partakes of a conscious intellectualism . Although Victorian poetry is extensive and varied , one may listing two groups of poets who are not divided by any well – defined antagonisms and are actually united by many intermediary shades . While one group seems..