Victorian Literature.

"To save our souls and heal the State", the words of George Gordon portrays how the English Literature is in danger. John Stuart Mill's critical essay "What is Poetry?" as well as "The Study of Poetry" by Matthew Arnold both depict in defense of poetry. Robert Browning's "Caliban upon Setebos" and Lord Alfred Tennyson's "In Memoriam A.H.H.", both face religious crises and "heal". All four of these authors clearly depict in their work …

…ever lives and loves, / One God, one law, one element, / And one far-off divine event, / To which the whole creation moves" (Epilogue 141-144). Both Mill and Arnold concentrate on how poetry is related to religion and science while Browning and Tennyson particularly focus on God. However, all these authors depict how literature and religion heals. Although they have different methods as well as beliefs, they all prove the quote by George Gordon to be true.