Dover Beach

1. Victorian Visions: Faith, Fiction, and the Fractured Empire

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Victorian Poetry between the Pull of the Past and the Pressure of Progress (1832–1860s) From The Professor’s Desk PRELUDE: From Romantic Rhapsody to Victorian Realism Literary history never begins or ends cleanly at a monarch’s coronation, or with the signing of a single Act. Yet in the England of the 1830s, a series of tremors […]

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Lyric-Scroll 016: Dover Beach: When Matthew Arnold Took His Girl to the Seaside and Gave Her an Existential Crisis

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Victorian Romance, Religious Decline, and the Saddest Beach Trip in English Poetry ABS Believes:When faith retreats like the tide, at least bring someone who won’t ghost you in the surf.Nothing says “love poem” like historical despair and light military metaphors. Matthew Arnold: Poet, Professor, and the Victorian Vibe-Checker Matthew Arnold was the guy who looked

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