# The Age of Tennyson

Author: Walker, Hugh, 1855-1939

Genre: Category: Classics of Literature

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36274

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Age+of+Tennyson+Walker&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The epoch of literature which opened about the year 1830 is perhaps best described, in the first place, by negatives. It is distinguished from the previous period, when the spirit which gave rise to the French Revolution was dominant, by the absence of certain characteristics then conspicuous. First and chiefly, it is distinguished by the failure of the hopes which at once produced and were produced by the Revolution. On the border-land between the two centuries literature was marked by buoyant and often extravagant expectation. Even pessimists like Byron were somewhat superficial in their pessimism. Byron looked upon the evils from which he and others suffered as due largely to the perve...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-tennyson-36274/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-tennyson-36274/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-tennyson-36274/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-tennyson-36274/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-tennyson-36274/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-tennyson-36274/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-tennyson-36274/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-tennyson-36274/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-tennyson-36274/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-tennyson-36274/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-tennyson-36274/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-tennyson-36274/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII. THE LATER FICTION 262](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-tennyson-36274/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III. THE MINOR POETS, 1830 TO 1850 52](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-tennyson-36274/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII. THEOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY 144](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-tennyson-36274/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI. POETRY FROM 1850 TO 1870: THE PRE-RAPHAELITES;](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-tennyson-36274/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX. CRITICISM, SCHOLARSHIP, AND MISCELLANEOUS PROSE 191](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-age-of-tennyson-36274/chapters/3/index.md)