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 Keats. I have elsewhere expanded it and do not wish to repeat it. A similar history now unfolded itself. By 1853, when Rossetti had finished the poems which we find in his first volume, the ideas and their impelling emotions which had begun to shape themselves clearly in 1830, which had awakened in England a political, religious, and social movement, and which, by their passion, had stirred Browning, Tennyson, and others to write poetry—were subjected to continual attacks, rapidly developing through the following years, from historical criticism and science. Doubt, especially in the case of the religious ideas, collected round them. So far as the history of poetry is concerned, the struggle took place over religious conceptions, both those held by the orthodox, and by the more liberal theologians. The ideas accepted with joy from the school of which Newman was the moving force, or from the school which Maurice may be said to have founded, were now denied or at least subjected to a cold investigation. And what had been their beauty was stained, till there was little or no pleasure and peace left in them for the imagination. Tennyson and Browning, however, would not let their spiritual essence go. Browning did not descend into the arena at all, nor was he one whit disturbed by the noise of the contest. He went quietly on, realising his own soul and what it had to say. Tennyson did enter into the fight, and was somewhat disturbed by it. In Memoriam, published in 1850, records what he thought of it during