Author: William Edward Armytage AxonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
On General Gordon's Copy of Newman's "Dream of Gerontius".
Author: William Edward Armytage AxonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
The Dream of Gerontius
Author: Cardinal John Henry NewmanPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 177356241X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
This epic poem was once set to song in the early 1900's and now stands as a testament to the great poetic works of the time it was originally written in. Many have gone so far as to compare the Dream of Gerontius to Dante's Divine Comedy which is a great comparison of such a lesser known work but that has great theological truths to is that it can be an important addition to anyone's library. This poem tells of an old man's journey into purgatory after he dies and what he sees when he has encountered such beings as angels and demons. Although the work is definitely Catholic in scope, some of the issues it addresses within its verses are topics and of the great Christian traditions can serious take to heart.
Bibliography of the Gordons
Author: John Malcolm BullochPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
The Dream of Gerontius
Author: John Henry NewmanPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 69
Book Description
"The Dream of Gerontius" by John Henry Newman is a spiritual and contemplative work that delves into the dream of a man named Gerontius as he journeys from life to death and beyond. Newman's writing offers a profound exploration of themes related to the afterlife, redemption, and the soul's journey. This book is a thought-provoking read for those interested in spiritual and theological reflections, inviting readers to contemplate the mysteries of existence and the transition from earthly life to the unknown.
Papers of the Manchester Literary Club
Author: Manchester Literary ClubPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
The Great War and the Language of Modernism
Author: Vincent SherryPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190282851
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
With the expressions "Lost Generation" and "The Men of 1914," the major authors of modernism designated the overwhelming effect the First World War exerted on their era. Literary critics have long employed the same phrases in an attempt to place a radically experimental, specifically modernist writing in its formative, historical setting. What real basis did that Great War provide for the verbal inventiveness of modernist poetry and fiction? Does the literature we bring under this heading respond directly to that provocation, and, if so, what historical memories or revelations can be heard to stir in these words? Vincent Sherry reopens these long unanswered questions by focusing attention on the public culture of the English war. He reads the discourses through which the Liberal party constructed its cause, its Great Campaign. A breakdown in the established language of liberal modernity--the idioms of public reason and civic rationality--marked the sizable crisis this event represents in the mainstream traditions of post-Reformation Europe. If modernist writing characteristically attempts to challenge the standard values of Enlightenment rationalism, this study recovers the historical cultural setting of its most substantial and daring opportunity. And this moment was the occasion for great artistic innovations in the work of Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, and Ezra Pound. Combining the records of political journalism and popular intellectual culture with abundant visual illustration, Vincent Sherry provides the framework for new interpretations of the major texts of Woolf, Eliot, and Pound. With its relocation of the verbal imagination of modernism in the context of the English war, The Great War and the Language of Modernism restores the historical content and depth of this literature, revealing its most daunting import.
Longman's Magazine
Author: The Victorian Novel of Adulthood
Author: Rebecca RainofPublisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821445383
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
In The Victorian Novel of Adulthood, Rebecca Rainof confronts the conventional deference accorded the bildungsroman as the ultimate plot model and quintessential expression of Victorian nation building. The novel of maturity, she contends, is no less important to our understanding of narrative, Victorian culture, and the possibilities of fiction. Reading works by Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Henry James, John Henry Newman, and Virginia Woolf, Rainof exposes the little-discussed theological underpinnings of plot and situates the novel of maturity in intellectual and religious history, notably the Oxford Movement. Purgatory, a subject hotly debated in the period, becomes a guiding metaphor for midlife adventure in secular fiction. Rainof discusses theological models of gradual maturation, thus directing readers’ attention away from evolutionary theory and geology, and offers a new historical framework for understanding Victorian interest in slow and deliberate change.
Longman's Magazine
Author: Charles James LongmanPublisher:
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Category : English periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
Author: John Henry Newman