... seemed to be dissolving before a panicked England's very eyes, replaced by the vision of a cold, mechanistic universe that cared little for our existence. Alfred, Lord Tennyson was painfully aware of the implications of such a universe, and he struggled with his own doubts about the existence of God. We glimpse much of ... found an outlet for his grief over Hallam's death, but also managed to regain the faith which seemed at times to have abandoned him. Tennyson regained and firmly reestablished his faith through the formation of the idea that God is reconciled with the mechanistic univ...

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... contributions towards the society of art against the surplus value it creates for it in return. Just like so many Victorian poets and intellectuals, Alfred Lord Tennyson found it hard to give poetry and the figure of the poet a place in society. Not only was he concerned about his public role ... his/her readers (Bristow, "Reforming Victorian Poetry: Poetics After 1832" 10). Moreover, within the category of the poets of sensation, Hallam prefers Tennyson over Shelley and Keats, because he does not participate in politics. Now that we have established a theoretical framework with regard t...

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