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Page 47
... Christ's sacrifice . He is indirectly justified by the pattern of suggestions built up by what I have called the counter - poem . is Christ is not the hero of Paradise Lost , neither is God . In a sense , Adam and Eve represent the Troy ...
... Christ's sacrifice . He is indirectly justified by the pattern of suggestions built up by what I have called the counter - poem . is Christ is not the hero of Paradise Lost , neither is God . In a sense , Adam and Eve represent the Troy ...
Page 106
... Christ never forgets people ; he is always interested in them ; he is their ransom , rescue , and their eternal friend . The paraphrasable content of Hopkins's poem seems a mere commonplace of religious thought ; almost , one might say ...
... Christ never forgets people ; he is always interested in them ; he is their ransom , rescue , and their eternal friend . The paraphrasable content of Hopkins's poem seems a mere commonplace of religious thought ; almost , one might say ...
Page 108
... Christ's heart wants men , his care haunts them , his ' foot follows kind ' - that is , Christ follows men in kindness , and he follows them because he too is man , of the same ' kind ' , of humankind ; and he ransoms and rescues them : ...
... Christ's heart wants men , his care haunts them , his ' foot follows kind ' - that is , Christ follows men in kindness , and he follows them because he too is man , of the same ' kind ' , of humankind ; and he ransoms and rescues them : ...
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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 English eternal evil experience expression faith Fall feeling Gifford Lectures 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 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