The Company of the Creative: A Christian Reader's Guide to Great Literature and Its ThemesKregel Academic - 639 páginas Great works and authors of the world are introduced and reviewed artistically, intellectually, and theologically. Persons discussed include Plato, Milton, Dickens, Shakespeare, Charlotte Bronte, Mark Twain, and C. S. Lewis. |
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... began to write poetry , and through the poet Vergil's good offices was introduced to a wealthy patron , Maecenas , who gave him a little farm in the Sabine Hills . This little farm has become the most famous farm in literature . Early ...
... began to write poetry , and through the poet Vergil's good offices was introduced to a wealthy patron , Maecenas , who gave him a little farm in the Sabine Hills . This little farm has become the most famous farm in literature . Early ...
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... began to rumble ominously in 63. On his journey to Rome for trial , the apostle Paul landed at Puteoli ( modern Pozzuoli ) in this vicinity between 59 and 62. The volcanic ash- enriched soil from earlier eruptions made this fertile ...
... began to rumble ominously in 63. On his journey to Rome for trial , the apostle Paul landed at Puteoli ( modern Pozzuoli ) in this vicinity between 59 and 62. The volcanic ash- enriched soil from earlier eruptions made this fertile ...
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... began to dispute with him . Some of them asked , " What is this babbler trying to say ? " Others remarked , " He seems to be advocating foreign gods . " They said this because Paul was preaching the good news about Jesus and the ...
... began to dispute with him . Some of them asked , " What is this babbler trying to say ? " Others remarked , " He seems to be advocating foreign gods . " They said this because Paul was preaching the good news about Jesus and the ...
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... began to put his thoughts into writing . These are his famous Meditations , which have been called " the most readable exposition of Stoic philosophizing that we possess . " He was a true patron of the arts and highly motivated to serve ...
... began to put his thoughts into writing . These are his famous Meditations , which have been called " the most readable exposition of Stoic philosophizing that we possess . " He was a true patron of the arts and highly motivated to serve ...
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... began to write poetry on his father's farm in the tumultuous time of the civil war . His earliest pastoral writings , the Eclogues , brought him immediate fame and on occasion when they were read , audiences would stand and acclaim him ...
... began to write poetry on his father's farm in the tumultuous time of the civil war . His earliest pastoral writings , the Eclogues , brought him immediate fame and on occasion when they were read , audiences would stand and acclaim him ...
Contenido
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Tapping the Vitality of the Renaissance | 77 |
Revisiting Crucial Ideas from | 103 |
Weighing the Christian Heritage | 145 |
Appreciating the Treasures of British Poetry | 179 |
Inquiring into the Values of American Poetry | 261 |
Examining the Startling Surges | 375 |
Broadening the Search into World Literature | 425 |
Exploring the Literature of and About | 490 |
Assessing the Literature of Drama and | 512 |
Searching Through the Vast World of | 532 |
Selecting the Best in the Daunting Array | 558 |
Reading and Its Future | 582 |
Sifting the Amazing Trove of British Fiction | 306 |
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The Company of the Creative: A Christian Reader's Guide to Great Literature ... David L. Larsen Sin vista previa disponible - 1999 |
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