ABSTRACT
Baker, William J. Sports in the Western World. 1982.
Walvin, James. Leisure and Society, 1830-1950. 1978.
See also SPORTS AND GAMES, WOMEN'S
and prolific Victorian poets and an accomplished literary craftsman, became poet laureate in 1850. His major works include Poems (1842), The Princess (1847), In Memoriam (1850), Maud (1855), and Idylls of the King (1859-1874; printed in one volume in 1889). Using literary and mythological sources and experimental or relatively unfamiliar verse forms (idyl, monodrama, medley, dramatic monologue), his works explore madness, a self divided between action and regression, the search for solid grounds for religious faith, troubled sexuality, the romance of the past, and the artist's mission.
