The Patriot was first published in Browning’s collection Men and Women in 1855. The poem is generally believed to have been inspired by Browning’s observation of the sudden rise and tragic downfall of leaders during Italy’s early and unsuccessful attempts to free itself from Austrian domination between 1841 and 1849.

Hopkins as a religious-minded poet believed in the presence of God in every object of nature. 

This sonnet "Shakespeare" is one of the best tributes ever paid to Shakespeare. It was composed in 1844. 

Tennyson was a great pictorial artist whose poetry is marked by an extraordinary gift for visual description. He possessed unrivalled powers of painting a scene, a landscape, or even a person with words full of clarity and vividness.

Alfred Lord Tennyson stands out as the most representative poet of the Victorian Age, capturing in his works the very essence of his time.

The poem entitled Break, Break, Break is an elegy which is inspired by the death of Tennyson's dear friend, Arthur Hallam in 1833. This poem was first published in 1842, nine years after the death of Arthur Henry Hallam, Tennyson's dearest friend.

“Prospice” is an optimistic poem of Robert Browning. It is a dramatic monologue expressing the poet's courage, hope and determination. It was composed after the death of Mrs. Browning and was first published in 1864 in Dramatic Personae. 

"Dover Beach" is a representative poem of Arnold. It was published in 1887. This poem is a sad musing on the life of the Victorian Age marked throughout by the prominence of the spirit of inquiry and criticism, by scepticism and religious uncertainty, and by spiritual struggle and unrest.

Tennyson is also a great love-poet, and his treatment of love is unique in many ways. He is primarily and mainly a poet of conjugal love.