On a Darkling Plain: Victorian Poetry and Thought
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Speaking the deepest and truest thoughts of humankind in the language available only to the gifted, the Victorian poets elected to do more than merely sing as versifiers. By coming to grips with thorny contemporary issues and suggesting workable solutions, they struggled to lead their people out of the wilderness. Tennyson, who came to be known as the voice of Victorianism, is the poet most often credited with this ambition. But Matthew Arnold and the other major poets had a similar aim. Their poems, while not devoid of feeling, are charged with the main currents of social, scientific, religious, and philosophical thought. Interwoven and resonating in sensuous song is their own thought. The best of the poetry fits the word and thought to the troubling developments of the time and rises to a prophecy to predict the problems of our time.
James Haydock
After doctoral work at UCLA, James Haydock earned a Ph.D. in Victorian literature from the University of North Carolina. Afterwards he taught college classes for thirty years and made his contribution to society. In retirement he published sixteen full-length books of fiction and non-fiction. A nonagenarian, he lives with his wife in Wisconsin.
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