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Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-49)
Thomas Lovell Beddoes was a dramatist and poet who also practiced medicine. His father Thomas Beddoes was a famous science writer and medical doctor whose friendship with Coleridge led to Coleridge’s interest in the Higher Criticism (the study of the Bible … Continue reading
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Tennyson (1809-1892) is not the last Romantic, but he is the last poet of the nineteenth-century to fully capture, in his early poems, the lyrical spirit of his great predecessors. An early poem like “Timbuctoo” echoes the naturalistic cadences of … Continue reading
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Robert Browning (1812-89) Like Tennyson, Browning may not be the last of the Romantic poets, but he is alone among the early Victorians in his appreciation of the natural world in all of its richness, from the “yellowing fennel” (l. … Continue reading
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