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Many active readers of Tennyson have started a debate centered on the poet's favorite religion; whether he grew agnostic or remained faithful to the old institutions of his religion. The paper traced the poet’s religion in his poetry and concluded that he was somewhat wavering between faith and doubt but by the end it seems that he gathered his strength and fought his doubts to win back his religion perhaps with new outlook. The publication of Charles Lyell’s Principle of Geology in 1830, and other philosophical books and essays printed at that time held new ideas and thoughts contrasted sharply with the current common attitudes of people towards religion and helped to bring about a mental division in the Victorian society. And as a result some Victorians developed a religious doubt and others bewildered but kept on their former faith on Christianity. Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892), the most famous poet of the period, couldn't keep himself away from that trauma of his own society, went to contemplate the event and had to decide on the matter whether to follow this or that group
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