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Victorian Poets ;It is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all ;At Cambridge, Tennyson met Arthur Henry Hallam, who became his bosom-friend. Hallam’s premature death in 1833 had a profound impact on Tennyson, and inspired many masterpieces, including “In the Valley of Cauteretz” and In Memoriam A.H.H. Much of his poems are based on classical mythological themes, such as Ulysses. Tennyson was appointed Poet Laureate in succession to Wordsworth and remains one of the most popular poets in the English language. ;Which one is your favorite translation of the title? ;Break, Break, Break;;;;;Robert Browning;Robert Browning, who disputes with Tennyson the first place among Victorian poets, was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. ;Browning and Sordello;Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett;Monologue and soliloquy;Dramatic monologue;;Browning’s fame today rests mainly on his dramatic monologues, in which the words not only convey setting and action but also reveal the speaker’s character. Unlike a soliloquy, the meaning in a Browning dramatic monologue is not what the speaker directly reveals but what he inadvertently “gives away” about himself in the process of rationalising past actions, or special pleading his case to a silent auditor in the poem.;What does the title “My Last Duchess” indicate?;What are the characteristics of the Duke?;What are the characteristics of the duchess?