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Excerpt from Religious Thought in Old English Verse In the following pages I have endeavoured to illustrate the main current of religious thought in English poetry through the long period of 1100 years which elapsed between Caedmon and the end of the last century. I am careful to say the main current. It has been an interest and a pleasure to me to trace through each passing century the general stream of religious thought flowing steadily and calmly on, affected far less than might have been expected by the changing circumstances and questions of the time. Those deeper and more personal feelings which so often find a natural and appropriate vent in poetry have little in common with the spirit of controversy. In religious poetry, so far as it is the language of the heart, even the Reformation itself, great as the movement was, made itself felt not so much in the disputatious and argumentative form which it displayed in most prose writings of that period, but simply, for the most part, in the evident enlargement of the general field of graver thought. Not unfrequently, it would be difficult to determine from internal evidence on which side the writer of the poem had ranged himself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Excerpt from The Mount of Vision: A Book of English Mystic Verse I have used the word religious rather than mystical, not because the terms are precisely equivalent, but because the first is the safer. It is ominous to hear the name of mysticism so easily used, given and taken, without a thought of its cost. It is not long since an interesting novel appeared of which the motive and the whole subject was Mysticism. Visions were easy to come by; and revelations, and such extreme things as the unitive life - things for which the Saints thought fifty years of self-conquest and self-abandonment a paltry price - were discussed as incidents of well-read aspiration. There was no mention of the first step, there was much chatter of the last. No one in the band of confident people engaged in this story in artistic work for a celestial end seemed to have entered upon the indispensable begin nings, to have overcome anything within, to have shut his mouth upon a hasty word, to have dismissed a worldly thought, to have compelled his heart to a diļ¬‚icult act of pardon, to have forgone beloved sleep, cherished food, conversation, sharp thoughts, or darling pride. The Saints, on the other hand, gave themselves to that spade work before permitting themselves so much as one credible dream. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Religious Studies: Sketches and Poems No one can read Mrs. Stowe's writings as a whole with out perceiving how constant is the appeal to the religious sensibilities. Her greatest book, which took captive the humblest reader and such a genius in literature as George Sand, was in a marked degree a religious book; and again and again, even in playful scenes, there is a quick passage to the religious nature. The explanation is in the simple fact that Mrs. Stowe herself from early girlhood to her latest years was governed by religion, and it is not sur prising, therefore, that an entire volume Should be gathered from her writings exclusively given over to direct expres sion of religious feeling and thought. She would gladly, especially in her later life, have con fined herself to writing of this sort, for the realities of faith, especially the presence of the Divine Master, came to have a commanding power over her mind and heart, and to make her almost impatient of much concern about adventures of the ordinary sort. Even the reminiscence of the racy life of the New England of her childhood could not absorb her. I would much rather, she writes in 1876 to her son Charles, have written another such a book as Footsteps of the Master, but all, even the religious papers, are gone mad on serials. The book which she was then writing was Poyanne People, and the reader knows what a thread of religious experience runs through that lively narrative. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Moral and Religious Poems To a Family Bible, A Church in North Wales, The Children whom Jesus blessed, The Olive Tree, The Darkness of the Crucifixion, Old (1t in an English Park, The Lilies of the Field, The Birds of the Air, Mountain Sanctuaries, Places of Worship, The Raising of the Widow's Son, Picture of the Infant Christ with Flowers, Louise Schepler, To the Same, rnuun cmmcrans or scripture Invocation, Invocation continued, The Song of Miriam, Ruth, The Annunciation, The Song of the Virgin, Mary at the Feet of Christ, Mary Magdalene at the Sepulchre, The Sisters of Bethany after the Death of Lazarus, The Penitent anointing Christ's Feet, The Women of Jerusalem at the Cross, Mary Magdalene bearing Tidings of the Resurrection, The Memorial of Mary, The Vigil of Rizpah, The Reply of the Shunamite Woman, ancoans or run ammo or 1834 A Vernal Thought, The River Clwyd in North Wales, To the Sky, On Records of Immature Genius, A Thought of the Sea, Distant Sound of the Sea at Evening, On Watching the Flight of a Skylark, A Remembrance of Grasmere, A Thought at Sunset. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from The Influence of Christianity on the Vocabulary of Old English Poetry It seems that about the time of the arrival Of the Roman missionaries the polytheistic religion had begun to lose its hold upon the thinking men Of at least some Of the tribes. The circumstances surrounding the con version Of Northumbria suggest that the Old religion no longer satisfied their needs, a fact plainly apparent from the speeches of Coifi and one Of the chief councilors. The rapidity with which Christianity was adopted would point in the same direction.8 Contact with Christian ideas had begun to undermine the Old paganism and to hasten the process of degeneration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.