Tennyson Alfred Victorian Age

The Victorian age was the age of industrialization, social reforms, and conflict. The Industrial Revolution changed the face and personality of England. Within one hundred years the Industrial Revolution produced factory towns, cheap newspapers, railroads and steamships, and machines for mass production. Between 1800 and 1900 the population nearly quadrupled from ten and a half million to thirty-seven million. What the Industrial Revolution did was to create a whole new environment to which human beings had to accommodate themselves. A lot of people were not ready for this changes, it created emptiness in their hearts, which caused melancholy towards life. Educated people promote the spread of literacy as a panacea for the troubles of the day. The poetry of the era reflected the complexity in England. Alfred Tennyson, the most representative, and well known poet of Victorian England, reflected moral and intellectual values of that time period in the most precise way.
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