Tennyson and the english romantics

Abstract EN

The research aims at examining how the English poet Alfred Tennyson was influenced by the English Romantics in his early poetic career through a comprehensive reading of both the poetical works of the English Romantics and Tennyson.

Tennyson had his beginning in Romanticism; his poetry was replete with the Romantic norms: melancholy, nature, and dreams.

It is clear that Byron and Coleridge and Keats suggested heavily in Tennyson's early volumes, Shelley and Wordsworth also contributed to Tennyson's formation of style.

In the 1833 volume, they are rarer than in the earlier one, and after this, the reminiscences of all English Romantic poetry become far more remote and infrequent.

But Tennyson possessed himself of his own style, and as he began to feel some fair assurance of a position among the masters of his own speech, he become correspondingly sensitive to debt and rigidly excluded anything which might be imputed as an obligation to his peers.

Tennyson's flight from the realm of Romanticism to the realm of Victorianism is a fantastic, safe and decisive one; for he had reached a significant and characterized rank among the Victorians.

From his imitation and admiration of the Romantics we can say that Tennyson learned and experienced a good deal from the Romantics and, later, created his own position.

Indeed he was the most Victorian poet who typed all mankind, the poet who deserved to be admired and loved for his originality, creativity and his Victorianism.