Matthew Arnold died on April 15th, 1888 from a heart attack. As a renowned poet and critic of sociocultural topics such as the intersection of faith and religion, it is interesting to note that a Bible verse is displayed on the grave marker he shares with his wife, Frances Lucy Arnold. The chosen verse is Psalm 97:11, which reads: "There is sprung up a light for the righteous; and joyful gladness for such as are true-hearted." The inclusion of a Bible verse on Arnold's grave is significant when considered in the context of Arnold's increased push for the moral purpose of the Church of England during the last decade of his life. Additionally, the positive and bright imagery of Psalm 97 might reveal how Arnold, at the end of his life, grows to believe that faith will return in a different form. The verse can therefore be read as potentially hopeful.

In 1884 the Jesuits transferred Hopkins from the beautiful countryside of St. Beuno's to Dublin’s newly formed University College to teach Greek Literature. This displacement became a  tumultuous time for Hopkins. He was overworked, grading nearly 1,000 papers each term, and felt trapped within the confounds of the dirty section of this deary city. He eventually dies here in 1889, one month before he turns 45, from typhoid. As his depression weighs heavily on him here, he becomes increasingly taken with the idea of entropy, the second law of thermodynamics. This law states that useful energy will ultimately unravel to the point of destruction leading to the absence of life. His poem, “Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves” (1886), reflects this idea. He wrote this poem while he taught in Dublin. This impacts the way the reader understands the whole of this poem, for, through techniques, such as the rhyme and the sprung rhythm, Hopkins enables the reader to grasp...

This is the location where Christina Rossetti was born and raised. She was in the Marylebone section of London, the same area that housed Westminster Abbey. Where she lived may have influenced her views on "fallen" women, and these views most certainly influenced her poem "Goblin Market." Yet, the reviewers of her poems missed or overlooked the allusions to fallen women in Rossetti's poems. Rossetti lived in London, and both of these reviews of her work were published in London, making the city an important place for understanding her work.