The After-world of the Poets: The Contribution of Victorian Poets to the Development of the Idea of Immortality

A. C. Bradley A. C. Swinburne Abt Vogler accept Adonais after-world Arthur Hugh Clough atheist beauty believe breath Browning's called child Christ Christian Clough Coleridge conception concerning creeds darkness dead death divine doctrine Dogma doubt Dowden dream earth Essay eternal experience expressed eyes fact faith fear feel fire flesh give grave Guido Hallam hath heart heaven hell hope human soul Hymn to Proserpine idea of immortality inspiration kind light lines lives lost man's Matthew Arnold Memoriam memories mind mood moral nature never orthodox pantheistic Paracelsus passage passion Phaedo philosophic Plato poem poet poet's poetic poetry Professor Prometheus Unbound punishment Queen Mab quoted regard religion religious Robert Browning says seems sense Shelley Shelley's sleep speaks spirit Swinburne tality tells Tennyson thee theological things thou thought true truth verse vision voice whole words Wordsworth writes