A Gathered Church: The Literature of the English Dissenting Interest, 1700-1930Oxford University Press, 1978 - 152 Seiten In this provocative volume well-known poet and literary critic Donald Davie examines the dissenting voice in English literature, religion, and politics. Examining the works of writers such as Milton, Charles Blake, and George Eliot; pulpit-orators such as Robert Hall; scientists like Michael Faraday; and political activists such as Joseph Priestley, he considers such questions as: How did their voice develop after their death? And were these dissenters the religious bigots, political time-servers, and artistic philistines they are portrayed as? |
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... poem , in the strictest pristine sense of ' lyric ' , and second , that in so far as it has been transmitted to us ... poem - in the poem , that is , as it has been smoothed and moulded in the course of oral transmission through one ...
... poem , in the strictest pristine sense of ' lyric ' , and second , that in so far as it has been transmitted to us ... poem - in the poem , that is , as it has been smoothed and moulded in the course of oral transmission through one ...
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... poem will be able to name its author . What I am describing is a very ancient kind of poem , perhaps the most ancient kind known to us - from other cultures as well as our own . What we have here , it seems , is a lay , ' le chant de la ...
... poem will be able to name its author . What I am describing is a very ancient kind of poem , perhaps the most ancient kind known to us - from other cultures as well as our own . What we have here , it seems , is a lay , ' le chant de la ...
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... poets and Merseyside poets and country - rock poets à la Bob Dylan ) , the attention we pay to a poem like ' O God , our help in ages past ' is precisely what it was fifty years ago which is to say , no attention at all , unless we ...
... poets and Merseyside poets and country - rock poets à la Bob Dylan ) , the attention we pay to a poem like ' O God , our help in ages past ' is precisely what it was fifty years ago which is to say , no attention at all , unless we ...
Inhalt
Lecture | 1 |
Dissent in the Present Century | 91 |
Notes | 109 |
Urheberrecht | |
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