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Page 84
... realities of experience after death ( and in this respect Dante is far removed from the Psalmist ) , but in the actual conduct of his story Dante often uses it as a touchstone of reality . Ulysses is far down in the eighth circle of ...
... realities of experience after death ( and in this respect Dante is far removed from the Psalmist ) , but in the actual conduct of his story Dante often uses it as a touchstone of reality . Ulysses is far down in the eighth circle of ...
Page 90
... reality of those other lives around him ( as Whitman imagined them ) , but inward to intensify his isolation . ' The noise of life ' is the signal for the poet's renewed cultivation of elegy : He is not here ; but far away The noise of ...
... reality of those other lives around him ( as Whitman imagined them ) , but inward to intensify his isolation . ' The noise of life ' is the signal for the poet's renewed cultivation of elegy : He is not here ; but far away The noise of ...
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... reality as myth and myth as reality . In his poem ' One Foot in Eden ' Muir recognizes that Time's handiworks by time are haunted , And nothing now can separate The corn and tares compactly grown . Yet this confused and imperfect time ...
... reality as myth and myth as reality . In his poem ' One Foot in Eden ' Muir recognizes that Time's handiworks by time are haunted , And nothing now can separate The corn and tares compactly grown . Yet this confused and imperfect time ...
Contents
God Defended | 26 |
God and Nature | 50 |
Poetic Attitudes to God from the Psalms to Dante | 69 |
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Adam Adam's antinomian argument argument from design Arnold beauty belief Book of Job Burns Burns's C.S. Lewis called Calvinist Canto century Christ Christian creed Dante Dante's darkness death deism divine doctrine earth Edwin Muir Eliphaz English eternal evil experience expression faith Fall feeling glory God's goes grace hast Heaven Hebrew Hopkins Hugh MacDiarmid human imagery images imagination innocent James Thomson Job's justice kind language lecture literature Lord MacDiarmid man's meaning Melencolia Milton mind mood moral moving mystery Nature never night orthodox Paradise Lost paradox poem poet poet's poetic poetry praise Psalm reader reality religion religious Sangschaw Satan Scotland Scottish seems sense sing speech stanza Stevens suffering suggest symbolic tells Tennyson thee theodicy theology things Thomson thou thought tion tradition truth universe Victorian poet vision visionary voice W.B. Yeats Wallace Stevens Whitman wicked words