Tennyson's Use of the Bible (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Robinson, Edna Moore

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1333385366 ISBN 13 : 9781333385361

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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Présentation de l'éditeur

In his essay on Dryden, Macaulay incidentally characterizes the English Bible as a book which, if everything else in our language should perish would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power. The statement carries more of accuracy than of hyperbole. For the English Bible contains almost every species of literature and contains each species in varied forms. The historic books are fine examples of simple narration. They are impartial and objective in quality and often dramatic, vivid, and picturesque. They run the whole scale from the naive biographies of the patriarchs to the dignified annals of the Kings. The prophets afford examples of eloquence which in richness of diction, in pathos, and in austere rebuke have never been surpassed. The lyric outbursts of the Psalms compare favorably with any other similar utterance of the troubled or gladdened heart. The idyl of Ruth was included in one of the volumes of Little Classics by a critical editor whose selections were much commended. A mong elegies the Lamentations of Jeremiah have a secure position. Popular and laconic wisdom is constantly quoted from the book of Proverbs. Ecclesiastes is a philosophic meditation. Job is an Epic, The Epic of the Inner Life as Prof. Genung styles it. And finally, the Song of Songs reveals something very much like the shifting scenes and dialogues of the drama. Many biblical critics place it in that class. If we take into consideration the various general qualities of literature, the Bible still affords a broad vision. W. Trail, in his Literary Characteristics and Achievements of the Bible,1 devotes instructive chapters, each with numerous sub-headings, to The Figurative, The Sublime, The Pathetic, The Picturesque, and The Poetic in the Scriptures. A still further corn Cincinnati, 1864.
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This reproduction was printed from a digital file created at the Library of Congress as part of an extensive scanning effort started with a generous donation from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The Library is pleased to offer much of its public domain holdings free of charge online and at a modest price in this printed format. Seeing these older volumes from our collections rediscovered by new generations of readers renews our own passion for books and scholarship.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1333385366
• ISBN 13: 9781333385361
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 61
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