...boldly confident of the result, as is Arnold when he intimates the superseding of religion by poetry: The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry,...dogma which is not shown to be questionable, not a received tradition which does not threaten to dissolve. Our religion has materialized itself in the...

...erinnern, dasandere Tragweite besitze. Sie bewege sich nicht nur in der Nähe der Religion (S.306): The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry,...our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer und surer stay.... The strongest pari of our religion to-day is its unconsious poetry.... and most...

...perhaps, worth recalling the actual passage of Matthew Arnold that Levine made so central to his argument: The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry...dogma which is not shown to be questionable, not a received tradition which does not threaten to dissolve. Our religion has materialized itself in the...

...at Portsmouth, where WJ Courthope cited approvingly the agnostic neo-romanticism of Matthew Arnold. There is not a creed which is not shaken, not an accredited...dogma which is not shown to be questionable, not a received tradition which does not threaten to dissolve. Our religion has materialised itself in the...

...are one and that is why he could write that The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry, when it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time...dogma which is not shown to be questionable, not a received tradition which does not threaten to dissolve. Our religion has materialised itself in the...

...forward for the next chapter. DARWINIAN CRISES Do we move ourselves, or are moved . . . ? Tennyson, Maud There is not a creed which is not shaken, not an accredited...dogma which is not shown to be questionable, not a received tradition which does not threaten to dissolve': so Matthew Arnold cites his own work in 1880...

...which has echoed down the decades as the implicit credo of many American departments of English, says: "The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry,...goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay," he goes on to make it clear that poetry is a "stay" just because it is detached from the question of...

...when the highest values devalue themselves and come to nothing as their transcendent base dissolves:17 "There is not a creed which is not shaken, not an...dogma which is not shown to be questionable, not a received tradition which does not threaten to dissolve." "I am nothing and very probably never shall...

...more generally) would "replace" "most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy," because there "is not a creed which is not shaken, not an...accredited dogma which is not shown to be questionable," he seems to have been more interested in the bearing of Christianity, on conduct, in its ethical dimensions,...

...coherence, spiritual solace, and moral guidance that religion had formerly supplied. For Arnold, therefore, "the future of poetry is immense, because in poetry,...goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay." Poetry becomes all the more important precisely because in the present age "there is not a creed which...