The Christian Renaissance: With Interpretations of Dante, Shakespeare, and Goethe, and a Note on T.S. EliotThe author extends his method of poetic interpretation, hitherto confined to Shakespearian studies, into a wider realm of poetic and religious symbolism, relating the work of Shakespeare, Dante, Goethe and other poets to the Bible and the dogmas of Christianity. The result is probably the first satisfying synthesis as yet attempted of the symbolism of Renaissance poetry and Christianity; a more necessary, because a more natural and profitable synthesis than that of science and religion. |
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SYMBOLISM | 31 |
THE SHAKESPEARIAN ARTFORM | 50 |
THE NEW TESTAMENT AS AN ARTFORM | 67 |
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