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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
Dieleman, Karen
Schaffer, Talia
O'Malley, Rose
Jewusiak, Jacob
Ryan, Robert M.
Journals
Victorian Poetry
Victorian Newsletter
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies
19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
Publishers
University of Chicago Press
Oxford University Press
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick
Middle Tennessee State University
Japan Women's University
Edinburgh University Press
Concepts
Science and literature
Poetry and poetics
Evolution
Materialism
Science and religion
Natural history
People
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord
Darwin, Charles Robert
Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Antoine Pierre de Monet de
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Ruskin, John
Meredith, George
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century, early
20th century
Places
Great Britain
United States
Institutions
Royal Society of London
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