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'Tennyson, we cannot live in art.' The age of Tennyson was one of great flux, both in terms of technology and ideas, and art cannot be imagined to have escaped the effects of this unprecedented development. R.C. Trench's assertion to Tennyson reflects not only of the continuing debate over the nature and status of art but the new popularity and respect for science in the mid nineteenth century; 'we cannot live in art' can be seen both as an appeal against the insularity and unrealistic outlook of art and its creators, and perhaps also to hint at the question of 'usefulness', which seemed to some to swing in favour of the new discoveries and rapid advance of science, rather than to the older artistic disciplines. In 1820 Thomas Love Peacock published an essay in the periodical 'Ollier's Literary Miscellany' exhorting able men to stop wasting their time by writing poetry...

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