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
Dieleman, Karen
Schaffer, Talia
O'Malley, Rose
Jewusiak, Jacob
Ryan, Robert M.
Concepts
Science and literature
Poetry and poetics
Evolution
Materialism
Natural history
Darwinism
Time Periods
19th century
Ancient
20th century, early
20th century
18th century
Places
Great Britain
United States
Rome (Italy)
Institutions
Royal Society of London
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