American Poets and Their Theology

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Griffith and Rowland Press, 1916 - 485 pages
 

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The immanence taught is an impersonal
63
Returning home he gives himself to poetry
69
A discord necessary to perfect harmony
70
He shows an open heaven and a present God
76
He left the ministry because he could not wor
83
Of all our poets the most American
107
His inner light differed from Emersons
114
He gave himself to the antislavery cause
120
His differences with Garrison
124
His faith in evangelical truth shown in
130
poetry
137
The mercy of God is his only hope
143
His genius was rustic and homely but conse
151
The secret of his life was his humble faith
157
Griswolds conclusions have been essentially
163
Great influence of Longfellow upon young
209
Professorship of Modern Languages and three
215
Hyperion shows growing originality
221
His second marriage noble house and liberal
227
Most successful in his shorter poems
231
As far from skepticism as from mysticism
238
His genius representative rather than creative
246
Holmes is our poetical humorist
321
Versifying began before he had learned
328
His Autocrat of the Breakfast Table makes
333
His novels are novels with a purpose
339
Evangelical faith the only alternative to agnos
346
The ethical fruits of his doctrine
352
Poems at public dinners and tributes to friends
359
Lowells characterization of the poet and
367
The relation between poetry and music
371
The Jacquerie the longest of his poems
384
Difficulty in finding a ninth poet
421
Two sources of his philosophy Elias Hicks
428
The early life of Whitman as a preparation
430
O Captain my Captain is Whitmans high
434
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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
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TitleAmerican Poets and Their Theology
AuthorAugustus Hopkins Strong
PublisherGriffith and Rowland Press, 1916
Original fromthe University of California
Digitized22 Sep 2007
ISBN0827418558, 9780827418554
Length485 pages
  
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