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... thought , expressed strongly and clearly earlier in the poem , that the conclusion is reached by our rea- soning ' from what we know ' from experience . Adam , on the other hand , is told to be content with what has been revealed to him ...
... thought , expressed strongly and clearly earlier in the poem , that the conclusion is reached by our rea- soning ' from what we know ' from experience . Adam , on the other hand , is told to be content with what has been revealed to him ...
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... thought which they need . ' Ultimately , this line of thought goes right back to Sir Philip Sidney , who in his Apologie for Poetrie ( first published anonymously in 1595 ) had argued that the poet ' nothing affirmes , and therefore ...
... thought which they need . ' Ultimately , this line of thought goes right back to Sir Philip Sidney , who in his Apologie for Poetrie ( first published anonymously in 1595 ) had argued that the poet ' nothing affirmes , and therefore ...
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... thought . The Calvinists of Princeton , who stuck to the old orthodoxy , could only rub their hands with an ' I - told - you - so ' when the Unitarians found Transcendentalism flourishing on their left wing : that was what happened when ...
... thought . The Calvinists of Princeton , who stuck to the old orthodoxy , could only rub their hands with an ' I - told - you - so ' when the Unitarians found Transcendentalism flourishing on their left wing : that was what happened when ...
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