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While Tennyson felt duty-bound to celebrate Britain’s providential destiny and affirm his faith that the expansion of Empire and the performance of God’s will were one and the same thing, his fellow poets, free of the burden of the laureateship, did not labour under the necessity of resolving all the contradictions of Victoria’s buccaneering empire.
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Garrett, J. (1986). Other Victorians: Browning, Hopkins and Hardy. In: British Poetry Since the Sixteenth Century. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27937-1_11
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