Introduction to the Study of English Literature

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Introduction to the Study of English Literature
Vida Dutton Scudder
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"The torpor of assurance," to use a phrase of Browning's, has been well shaken from our creed.
A little after the middle of the century came the great expansion due to the introduction of evolu- tionary theory. This theory affected religious con- ceptions very powerfully, strengthening at first the forces that made for denial and scepticism, and later transforming many of the outlying and more mechan- ical modes of religious thought. All this ferment of religious inquiry, this exultant pleasure
... in escape from narrow dogma, this lament for dead faith, this joy in faith reconquered, all the phases of profound interest in the life of the soul which characterize modern life, are expressed in Victorian literature, especially in Victorian poetry.
Many other forces have of course found expression The »» in modem literature. The nineteenth century knew moy^ a great movement toward beauty, which poets and "*®^*- prose writers did as much as artists to foster; it knew a quickened desire to penetrate the secrets of 464 MODERN ENGLAND Nature with loving heart and mind.


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