Faith and Doubt: Religion and Secularization in Literature from Wordsworth to LarkinMercer University Press, 1997 - 261 páginas "This major new work from a leading authority touches on issues that are increasingly pertinent to the world today. Pairing great writers from each generation who typify the contrasts and concerns of their age, Professor Brett explores the complex interplay between faith and doubt in English literature since the Enlightenment. Not confining himself to a biographical and historical approach, he deploys his understanding of contemporary philosophy and ideology to throw a new light on often neglected areas."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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... ideas , scientific theories , works of art , language ; all that makes up our cultural inheritance . Wellek suggests that the literary work exists only in the minds of critics , changing from generation Faith and Doubt / 2.
... ideas , scientific theories , works of art , language ; all that makes up our cultural inheritance . Wellek suggests that the literary work exists only in the minds of critics , changing from generation Faith and Doubt / 2.
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... suggests that their poems share a common purpose with Wilberforce's A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians and compares the superficiality of so much religion and the insincerity of contemporary ...
... suggests that their poems share a common purpose with Wilberforce's A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians and compares the superficiality of so much religion and the insincerity of contemporary ...
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... suggest , as Godwin had done , that family ties were of little consequence , cut across one of Wordsworth's most cherished beliefs . Again , Coleridge's support and the self - confidence he had given Wordsworth as a poet , made nonsense ...
... suggest , as Godwin had done , that family ties were of little consequence , cut across one of Wordsworth's most cherished beliefs . Again , Coleridge's support and the self - confidence he had given Wordsworth as a poet , made nonsense ...
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... suggesting that in The Prelude Wordsworth is the mouthpiece of what Hazlitt called ' the Spirit of the Age ' . This is then extended to include the suggestion that Wordsworth speaks in terms which anticipate German and especially ...
... suggesting that in The Prelude Wordsworth is the mouthpiece of what Hazlitt called ' the Spirit of the Age ' . This is then extended to include the suggestion that Wordsworth speaks in terms which anticipate German and especially ...
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... suggests that any remaining commitment to Christian belief was at the most merely nominal , and as we have seen , in 1796 Coleridge considered him ' a semi - atheist ' . On the death of their mother , Dorothy Wordsworth lived Faith and ...
... suggests that any remaining commitment to Christian belief was at the most merely nominal , and as we have seen , in 1796 Coleridge considered him ' a semi - atheist ' . On the death of their mother , Dorothy Wordsworth lived Faith and ...
Contenido
6 | |
Carlyle and Arnold | 54 |
George Eliot and Dickens | 84 |
Tennyson and Browning | 125 |
Yeats and Eliot | 161 |
Auden and Larkin | 205 |
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Faith and Doubt: Religion and Secularization in Literature from Wordsworth ... R. L. Brett Vista previa limitada - 1997 |
Términos y frases comunes
admiration Arnold Auden belief Betjeman Bible Biblical Biographia Literaria brought Browning Browning's Carlyle Carlyle's century characters childhood Christ Christian Church of England Coleridge Coleridge's contemporaries criticism Daniel Deronda death declared described Dickens Dickens's divine doctrine doubt English essay experience F. D. Maurice faith feeling felt George Eliot Goethe Gospel guilt Hegel hero hope human ideas influence Jesus John Kierkegaard Kubla Khan Larkin later letter literary Little Gidding lives looks Lyrical Ballads man's marriage Maurice Memoriam mind modern moral mysticism nature never Newman novels Philip Larkin philosophy poem poet poetic poetry political Prelude published realisation recognised regarded religion religious revealed Romola Sartor Resartus scepticism seen sense society soul Spinoza spiritual Sterling story suggests supernatural T. S. Eliot Tennyson theology thought Tintern Abbey tradition truth Unitarian Victorian vision W. B. Yeats Waste Land Wordsworth writes written wrote Yeats Yeats's
Pasajes populares
Página 25 - Unwearied in that service : rather say With warmer love — oh ! with far deeper zeal Of holier love. Nor wilt thou then forget, That after many wanderings, many years Of absence, these steep woods and lofty cliffs, And this green pastoral landscape, were to me More dear, both for themselves and for thy sake ! LINES WRITTEN IN EARLY SPRING.
Página 140 - Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life...
Página 28 - Lyrical Ballads, in which it was agreed that my endeavours should be directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least romantic — yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief, for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
Página 128 - Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
Página 46 - Keen pangs of Love, awakening as a babe Turbulent, with an outcry in the heart; And fears self-willed, that shunned the eye of Hope; And Hope that scarce would know itself from Fear; Sense of past Youth, and Manhood come in vain, And Genius given, and Knowledge won in vain...
Página 175 - I am content to follow to its source Every event in action or in thought; Measure the lot; forgive myself the lot! When such as I cast out remorse So great a sweetness flows into the breast We must laugh and we must sing, We are blest by everything, Everything we look upon is blest.
Página 72 - Sunk, then, is Europe's sagest head. Physician of the iron age, Goethe has done his pilgrimage. He took the suffering human race, He read each wound, each weakness clear; And struck his finger on the place, And said : Thou ailest here, and here...
Página 148 - The counter our lovers staked was lost As surely as if it were lawful coin : And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost Is — the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin.
Página 28 - Wordsworth, on the other hand, was to propose to himself as his object, to give the charm of novelty to things of every day, and to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural, by awakening the mind's attention from the lethargy of custom, and directing it to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us...