Victorian Religious Poetry: An Overview

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Individual Authors

• Robert Browning
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• John Henry Newman
• Gerard Manley Hopkins
• Christina Rossetti
• Alfred Lord Tennyson
• Isaac Williams

Poetry of Doubt and Irreligion

• Matthew Arnold
• Arthur Hugh Clough
• James Thomson
• Algernon Charles Swinburne

Genres and Form

• The Victorian Long Poem: Explaining God's Ways to Man (and Woman)
• The Religious Lyric
• Dramatic Monologues with religious themes
• Hymns

Selected Bibliography

Harrison, Anthony H. Christina Rossetti in Context. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina UP, 1988.

Johnson, E. D. H. The Alien Vision of Victorian Poetry. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1952.

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