Victorian Age

The Victorian Age brought about great changes in all areas of everyday living. There were great political, economical, religious, and social changes which influenced the attitudes and values of the emerging society along with many writers of that time. Countries were rapidly changing from an agricultural to an industrial society. Life during this time was moving at a much faster pace. Although many thought, including Bathd, "of the Victorian Age as a smug complacency, of hypocritical and unhealthy prudery", (Bathd 22) it was much more than that. The Victorian Era marked freedom in a way of which poets felt they had an immediate mission. Alfred Tennyson was among one of the greatest poets of this time. His work completely sums up and expresses the great Victorian Era in which he lived. The Victorian Age lasted from 1837 - 1901. During this time Queen Victoria ruled and her reign was so outstanding it became known as the "Victorian Era". Around this time Victorian England saw great expansion of wealth, power and culture that influenced not only England but most parts of the world. "This was also a time of several unsettling social developments such as the growth of English democracy, the education of the masses, the progress of

Others say it was a time in which science upheld and took over the minds and body of many writers and citizens. Most people say it was a time of many unsettling social developments. (Cooke, 1949)The technological revolution the Victorians' were born into was a violently disturbing period. Man's soul has made Tennyson the only being capable of comprehending and describing creation in the way which he did. A time the middle class drew forward and became the dominant class. Attempts to finance elementary education, however, were hampered by conflict over the church's role in running schools. Four months after Albert's death in 1861, the Queen invited Tennyson to Osbourne for an informal dish. She lived long enough to see her name indissoluble linked into a remarkable century's culture. This continued on though out most of the age but at this time in 1849 women got some heads up for the future. "In Memoriam" comes to terms with loss, grief, faith, doubt, and immortality. Unlike other writers, he put religion and faith to the test even before the Theory of Evolution came about in 1859. Many new industries sprung up as people applied the steam engine to new uses. Man created new means of bettering himself and his environment. Queen Victoria outlived most of Bright's republicans by many years. Expressing you are just making yourself suffer when making a commitment, because, eventually, all the good people will die.