Tennyson as a Religious Teacher (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Charles F. G. Masterman

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 133049346X ISBN 13 : 9781330493465

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

This book explores how one of the greatest English poets, Tennyson, confronted the pressing intellectual challenges of the 19th century and how he articulated compelling responses to life's fundamental dilemmas. The author examines how Tennyson grappled with the immense scale of the universe and the burgeoning discoveries of science at the time, including the evolutionary concepts of natural selection. The author unpacks the complex theology and spiritual insights woven throughout Tennyson's verse. This book highlights the timeless philosophical questions Tennyson considered, revealing how his ideas spoke to the problems of his era and continue to speak to our own.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Many of these may appear only remotely to deal with Tennyson sposition, and mainly to be occupied with the comments and suggestions of the author. The chapters on Vastness, Evolution, I mmortahty, and others, may seem but inadequate attempts to discuss contemporary problems, with only scattered allusions to the work of Tennyson. But the mere extraction from the work of any great author of certain categorical propositions is a dismal though easy task. To place these propositions in their correct relation to the changing thought of any given time requu es a clear explanation of the exact meaning of the theories and the terms so glibly utilised, and so readily misunderstood. Such a task is as much harder as it is better worth the doing. From one point of view my treatment of these problems will seem too full; from another, it will appear altogether inadequate. A book, instead of a chapter, on each of these questions would but give a bare discussion of outlines. Yet, perhaps, even this slight sketch may contribute towards a better understanding of the problems which confronted Tennyson and his contemporaries problems of an age which already in its methods of thought, its difficulties, and its ideals, is rapidly passing away. A mid much that appears unsatisfactory in the literature that has accumulated around Tennyson spoetry, I may mention certain writings that, judged by however high a standard, must command respect and admiration. Professor Dowden s Tennyson and Browning, in his Essays and Studies ;M rW.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 133049346X
• ISBN 13: 9781330493465
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 273
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