The Victorian Age in England was a complex time, a time of great national pride as a major empire and military power well as a time of stern domestic examination as class distinctions among the rich, the poor, the landed, the titled, and the unemployed continued to develop. Elizabeth Barret Browning, Robert Browning, and Alfred Lord Tennyson were three leading poets of the era who explored themes of social conscience and class distinction as well as searching for a way to actually represent the times in which they lived accurately and artistically.
Barret Browning was quoted as saying poe…
