Charles Lyell’s Churches and the Erosion of Faith in Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach”
The author discusses how in the poem “Dover Beach” (1851-52) Matthew Arnold engages with literary texts of the past as well as with works of contemporary writers. Thus parallels in Arnold’s text with passages written by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Thucydides, Arthur Clough, William Shakespeare, a...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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LED - Edizioni Universitarie di Lettere Economia Diritto
2014-07-01
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Series: | Linguae &: Rivista di Lingue e Culture Moderne |
Online Access: | http://www.ledonline.it/index.php/linguae/article/view/733 |