English Literature / Unit 14 ENL 1345 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Victorian Poetry and Doubt
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The idea
Doubt runs through Victorian verse: Tennyson's "honest doubt" in In Memoriam, Arnold's withdrawing Sea of Faith, Clough's ironies, Hopkins's terrible sonnets, Hardy's bleak fate. The anchor ties it to geology, Darwin and higher criticism of the Bible.
In practice
Faith questioned in every voice.
Where people slip
Doubt is not always despair.
Your place on the trail
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