| Description |
vii, 227 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
The Gifford lectures ; 1983 |
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Gifford lectures ; 1983.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The Book of Job: God under attack -- Paradise lost: God defended -- God and nature -- Poetic attitudes to God from the psalms to Dante -- Mood poetry: the dilemma of Solipsism -- Poetry and science: the poetry of doubt, atheism and stoicism -- Calvinism and the poetic imagination: from Burns to Hogg, problems of antinomianism -- The American experience: From Puritanism through post-Puritanism to agnosticism: Edward Taylor, Emily Dickinson, Wallace Stevens -- Types of vision: Edwin Muir and Hugh MacDiarmid -- Poetry and belief. |
| Subject |
Religious poetry -- History and criticism.
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Christian poetry -- History and criticism.
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God in literature.
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| ISBN |
0198128258 |
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