American Poets and Their Theology

Griffith and Rowland Press, 1916 - 485 páginas

A natural linguist but with little college training	5

X	10

His influence covered a period of fiftysix years	13

Foundation of his character was his belief	19

A vein of humor in Bryant	27

Declared the worldwide supremacy of Christ	35

Emerson the heir of eight generations of Puri	51

Transcendentalism is a compound of English	56

Lowell is our chief poetical moralist	267

Parentage and education give him a bent	268

Begins a series of prose essays on English	274

His interest turning from literature to politics	280

Appointed professor in Harvard College	289

The Cathedral recognizes an indwelling God	295

Religion gives him little comfort in bereave	301

Holmes is our poetical humorist	321

His Autocrat of the Breakfast Table makes	66

He lacked humility and the sense of	68

He shows an open heaven and a present God	76

External world beautiful because unfallen	92

Of all our poets the most American	107

His inner light differed from Emersons	114

He gave himself to the antislavery cause	120

But subsequent compassion in The Lost	126

poetry	137

The mercy of God is his only hope	143

His genius was rustic and homely but conse	151

His earliest verses striking and melodious	166

His miserable death in Baltimore	181

God is only material force without intelligence	187

The Poetic Principle The Phi	198

Hyperion shows growing originality	221

His second marriage noble house and liberal	227

Versifying began before he had learned	328

Charles Eliot Nortons characterization	334

Opposes hyperCalvinism rather than Calvinism	341

The fatalistic inheritance of physical evil throws	350

As far from transcendentalism as from aboli	356

An entertainer rather than a teacher	362

The relation between poetry and music	371

The Jacquerie the longest of his poems	384

Difficulty in finding a ninth poet	421

His care for the sick and wounded	445

The influence of music upon his verse	452

Selfdeifying he makes Jehovah Christ Satan	458

Only one poem shows belief in a righteous	466

223	473

Loss of his wife leads to his translation	475

EDGAR ALLAN	481

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Título	American Poets and Their Theology
Autor	Augustus Hopkins Strong
Editora	Griffith and Rowland Press, 1916
Original de	Biblioteca Regional do Sul da Universidade da Califórnia
Digitalizado	16 Dez 2015
ISBN	0827418558, 9780827418554
Número de páginas	485 páginas

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