Explain how the Pre-Raphaelite interest in mythic subject matter might be related to the era’s crisis of faith. Give an example from the lecture and from the poem “Haystack in the Floods.
Nature and Divine
Explain the Victorian reluctance to embrace Darwinism and other scientific thought. How is that reluctance reflected in “In Memoriam
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson”?
Second Essay
Explain how the Pre-Raphaelite interest in mythic subject matter might be related to the era’s crisis of faith. Give an example from the lecture and from the poem “Haystack in the Floods”.