The lines 'Nature, red in tooth and claw / With ravine, shriek'd against his creed' appear in which work?
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Correct answer: In Memoriam A.H.H.
These lines from 'In Memoriam' reflect Tennyson's struggle to reconcile the idea of a loving God with the brutal reality of the natural world and the findings of contemporary geology and biology.
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