Chapter ID: CBB001422071

Tennyson's “Locksley Hall”: Progress and Destitution (2013)

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Description Poems debate the notion of “Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good, / And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.”


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Authors & Contributors
Goldstein, Amanda Jo
Purton, Valerie
Beer, Gillian
Colman, John
Holmes, John
Leonard, David Charles
Journals
19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Victorian Newsletter
Victorian Poetry
Publishers
Oxford University Press
University of Chicago Press
New York, City University of
Anthem Press
Bloomsbury Academic
Edinburgh University Press
Concepts
Science and literature
Poetry and poetics
Evolution
Materialism
Science and religion
Darwinism
People
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord
Darwin, Charles Robert
Blake, William
Chambers, Robert
Darwin, Erasmus
Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Étienne
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century
20th century, early
Ancient
Places
Great Britain
United States
Rome (Italy)
Institutions
Royal Society of London
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