UNIT 1
Detailed reading and critical discussion of the following poems:
The Lady of Shallot
The Lotos-Eaters
The Two Voices
Ulysses
UNIT 2
Ambivalence in Tennyson’s poetry
Representative of the age
UNIT 3
Lyricism in Tennyson’s poetry
Tennyson as a Modern poet
UNIT 4
Detailed reading and critical discussion of the following poems:
My Last Duchess
Prospice
Rabbi Ben Ezra
The Last Ride Together
UNIT 5
A comparative estimate of Tennyson and Browning
UNIT 6
Obscurity in Browning’s poetry
Optimism
UNIT 7
Detailed reading and critical discussion of the following poems :
Dover Beach
The Scholar Gipsy
The Last Word
The Forsaken Merman
Growing Old
UNIT 8
Contradiction in Arnold’s art: A Classicist in prose and a Romantic in Prose
Note of pessimism
