Louis Markos on Tennyson and the Victorian period

Why is the Victorian period so like our own? How does Tennyson’s poetry embody all of the struggle and grief of the Victorian period?

Brent Is joined by Louis Markos, professor in English at Houston Christian University in the States.  ‘Pressing Forward – Alfred, Lord Tennyson and the Victorian Age’ is published by Sapientia Press. 

• (1:05) The Victorian period so like our own;
• (2:20) What the Victorians can teach us.  Evolution and creation.  The nature of reality;
• (5:10) The crisis of faith in the Victorian period;
• (8:55) Tennyson’s ‘In Memorium’ and Victorian grief and struggle.  Arthur Hallam;
• (15:20) Tennyson’s fashioning of a new relationship between religion and science;
• (22:15) Carlyle and Ruskin.  The Industrial Revolution. 

Links mentioned in this episode:

Louis A. Markos 'Pressing Forward: Alfred, Lord Tennyson and the Victorian Age'

 

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