AGES ERA PERIOD
VICTORIAN AGE
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Question
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They were all poets
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They were all associated with Pre-Raphaelite School
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They were all atheists
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They were all associated with the Oxford Movement
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Detailed explanation-1: -Newman was a founder of the Oxford Movement, set up to revitalise the Church of England, before his controversial conversion to Catholicism in 1845. Newman went on to establish a congregation called the Birmingham Oratory and was appointed the first rector of the institution that would become University College Dublin.
Detailed explanation-2: -Oxford movement, 19th-century movement centred at the University of Oxford that sought a renewal of “catholic, ” or Roman Catholic, thought and practice within the Church of England in opposition to the Protestant tendencies of the church.
Detailed explanation-3: -It stood for the restoration of poetry, the mystic symbolism and the spiritual power that characterised the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages. The Oxford Movement also influenced the poets like Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Morris, Christina Rossetti, and Charlotte Yonge.