This study surveys Victorian-era poetry, examining prevailing manners and materials and identifying characteristic diction and tonal tendencies. It analyzes major figures such as Tennyson and Browning and traces their differing influences on contemporaries including Arnold, Rossetti, Swinburne and Morris. Chapters address the poets’ technical choices, the problems posed by changing intellectual fashions, and the tension between subjective lyric, narrative and dramatic modes. It also considers recurring themes—occasional and love poetry, the Victorian use of nature, spiritual expression, and debates about moral judgment and public authority in poetic form.