This is a non-linear powerpoint I made for my MD300 class. It is a sort of quiz about how well you can identify the poet from the title of the poem. If you answer correctly, you learn some biographical information about the poet.

1. VICTORIAN POETS!
By Franny Briggs

2. WHO WERE THE VICTORIANS?
 While they are all housed within the Victorian era,
the poets themselves differed quite a bit!
 They tackled issues of their present day England
while also exploring issues in their own lives.

3. SEE IF YOU CAN NAME THE POET
 Dover Beach
 In Memoriam
 The Bishop Orders His Tomb at St. Praxed’s
 Cry of the Children
 Portuguese Sonnets
 My Last Duchess
 Marianna
 Crossing the Bar
 The Forsaken Merman
 Goblin’s Market
 Jenny

4. DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI
 Rossetti was an artist
and poet very
influential in the pre-
Raphaelite movement.
 He would often write a
poem specifically for a
piece of his artwork, or
the other way around.

5. CHRISTINA ROSSETTI
 Most famous for her
poem Goblin Market,
Rossetti asserted
herself as a great
female poet of the era.
 She was published
widely until her death,
especially in the pre-
Raphaelite magazine
“The Germ”

6. MATTHEW ARNOLD
 Matthew Arnold was
considered one of the
first modern poets of
the Victorian Era.
 He was the
superintendent of
England’s schools for
many years and was
highly revered.
 Arnold was famous for
his imagery involving
the ocean and also
themes involving
women.

7. ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
 Tennyson was the Poet
Laureate of the era,
and one of the most
revered poets of all
time.
 His lengthy poem In
Memoriam is his most
famous.
 He is the 2nd most
quoted writer after
Shakespeare.

8. ROBERT BROWNING
 Browning was famous
for his dramatic
monologues and
commentary on social
institutions.
 He was married to
Victorian poet
Elizabeth Barrett
Browning.

9. ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
 Browning, married to
poet Robert Browning
was also one of the
most famous Victorian
poets – famous both in
England and the US.
 She had a great
influence on Edgar
Allen Poe and Emily
Dickinson.