Victorian poetry and religious diversity14 John Keble, "Lecture XL," in Keble, Lectures on Poetry 1832-34, trans.
Edward Kershaw Francis, 2 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press: 1912), II, 484.
15 For more on The Christian Year and its rather incredible publishing history, see
Tennyson, Victorian Devotional Poetry, 72-113, 215-32.
16 This statistic is cited in Richard D. Altick, The English Common Reader: A
Social History of the Mass Reading Public, 1800-1900 (Chicago, IL: University
of Chicago Press, 1957), 386.
17 Matthew Arnold, "The Study of Poetry," in Arnold, English Literature and Irish
Politics, ed. R.H. Super, The Complete Prose Works of Matthew Arnold, 11
vols. (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1960-77), IX, 161.
18 Matthew Arnold, Culture and Anarchy with Friendship's Garland and Some
Literary Essays, ed. Super, The Complete Prose Works of Matthew Arnold, V,
99-100.
19 Richard D. Altick, Victorian People and Ideas (New York: W.W. Norton,
1973), 64-
20 Altick, Victorian People and Ideas, 65.
21 See Alvin Sullivan, ed., British Literary Magazines: The Victorian and Edwar-
dian Age, 1837-1913 (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1984). My list repre-
sents only a very small sampling of the religiously affiliated journals of the
period; for more complete references, see Sullivan's "Appendix H: Nineteenth
Century Religious Magazines with Literary Contents," 515-19.
22 On this point see Beth Zion Lask-Abrahams, "Grace Aguilar: A Centenary
Tribute," Jewish Historical Society of England Transactions 16 (1945-51),
143.
23 David Feldman, Englishmen and Jews: Social Relations and Political Culture,
1840-1914 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1994), 35.
24 Grace Aguilar, "Song the Spanish Jews in their 'Golden Age,'" The Occident
and American Jewish Advocate 1 (1844), 289.
25 "Consider the Lilies of the Field" was published Goblin Market and Other
Verse (1862). R.W. Crump identifies the date of composition as 1852; see The
Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti: A Variorum Edition, ed. Crump, 3 vols.
(Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1979-1900), I, 261.
26 Gerard Manley Hopkins, "To His Father," 16 October 1866, in Hopkins,
Further Letters of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Including His Correspondence with
Coventry Patmore, second edition, ed. Claude Colleer Abbott (London: Oxford
University Press, 1956), 94.
27 Daniel A. Harris, Inspirations Unbidden: The "Terrible Sonnets" of Gerard
Manley Hopkins (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1982), 124.
28 Hopkins's play on the conventional form of heterosexuality points to the ways
in which the Victorian anti-Anglo-Catholic and anti-Roman Catholic discourses
often expressed antipathy toward homosexuality; on this issue, see David
Hilliard, "UnEnglish and Unmanly: Anglo-Catholicism and Homosexuality,"
Victorian Studies 25 (1982), 181-210.
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