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	Victorian Pessimism Further Reading Claire Tomalin, Thomas Hardy the Time-Torn Man (Viking, 2006) For loss of faith/profession in the 19th century, pre- and post-Darwin: Poetry: Tennyson, 'In Memoriam' (1850) Arthur Hugh Clough, Say not the struggle nought availeth (1847) Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach (written 1852, published 1867) Matthew Arnold, Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse (1855) Novels: J. A. Froude, The Nemesis of Faith (1849, reprinted Libris, 1988) Mrs Humphry Ward, Robert Elsmere (1888, reprinted OUP, 1987) H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895, reprinted Penguin, 2005) Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh (1903, reprinted OUP, 1993) For ideas of Heredity/Degeneration post-Darwin: Max Nordau, Degeneration (Entartung, trans into English 1895, reprinted Nebraska UP, 1993) General: Jeffrey Paul Von Arx, Progress and Pessimism: Religion, Politics and History in late 19^th Century Britain (Harvard University Press, 1985) Joshua Foa Dienstag, Pessimism: Philosophy, Ethic, Spirit (Princeton University Press, 2006) Links Poets.org - A.E. Housman A.E. Housman: More Poems Victorian Spiritualism The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites