Masterful Images: English Poetry from Metaphysicals to RomanticsBarnes & Noble Books, 1976 - 254 pages |
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Page 48
... Christian Hope . All tragedy gravitates perhaps towards either hope or despair in its final suggestions , but only Christian tragedy is actually transformed by the assertion of hope . There is the hope of life after death , which most ...
... Christian Hope . All tragedy gravitates perhaps towards either hope or despair in its final suggestions , but only Christian tragedy is actually transformed by the assertion of hope . There is the hope of life after death , which most ...
Page 183
... Christian tradition for its source : ' A spirit had followed them ; one of the invisible inhabitants of this planet , neither departed souls nor angels ; concerning whom the learned Jew Josephus , and the Platonic Constantinopolitan ...
... Christian tradition for its source : ' A spirit had followed them ; one of the invisible inhabitants of this planet , neither departed souls nor angels ; concerning whom the learned Jew Josephus , and the Platonic Constantinopolitan ...
Page 185
... Christian alike , had accepted duty to a guest as sacred , and believed that to harm a guest or indeed to fail to ... Christian belief . The book of Genesis asserts it , and Christ himself said that not a bird falls to earth without his ...
... Christian alike , had accepted duty to a guest as sacred , and believed that to harm a guest or indeed to fail to ... Christian belief . The book of Genesis asserts it , and Christ himself said that not a bird falls to earth without his ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Donnes The Sunne Rising | 21 |
Herberts Redemption | 29 |
Copyright | |
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Masterful Images: English Poetry from Metaphysicals to Romantics A. E. Dyson,Julian Lovelock No preview available - 1976 |
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