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The "Divine Comedy" another "Pilgrim's Progress". 115
Expresses Dante's philosophy of civil society
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III
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Dante's scheme of the universe
Dante's verse and its influence
The entrance to the hell
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Expresses his ideas of man's relations to God
An interpretation of all known truth
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The hell of incontinence
The hell of bestiality.
The hell of malice . .
Sin is essentially vile and contemptible
Sin is self-perversion of the will .
Penalty is not external to the sinner
From hell to purgatory
The seven capital sins
The seven terraces of the mount
Lessons of the " Purgatorio"
Purgatory is not so much a place as a process
To Dante the spiritual world was the real world
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Unwarrantably extends purification after death Regards the process of purification as a penal one The nine spheres of the "Paradiso"
The rose of the blessed . . .
Light and love constitute Dante's heaven
Poetry an expression of the universal
Dramatic poetry the highest form of art
More of truth in poetry than in prose .
The abnormal use of imagination
Universality involves impersonality'.
Shakespeare partly the product of his time
Nature as well as nurture.
A youth not wild and dissolute
The first two periods of his productive activity
The last two periods of his productive activity.
Did Shakespeare appreciate his own genius?
Concessions to the tastes of the vulgar
Meaning of the word universality
Character manifested.
Character developed
Ethical and religious ideas
Neither naturalistic nor agnostic
Man's freedom and responsibility
Crime is not the mere result of ignorance
Personal sins and hereditary sinfulness
Responsibility for inborn depravity.
Conscience predicts retribution
Not only in the next world, but in this
The only real quittance is the work of Christ
Shakespeare a witness to Christianity. .
A creator of imagery as well as of character.
The poetic diction of Shakespeare
The limitations of Shakespeare
The greatest poet of secular humanity
MILTON
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THE POET OF THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION 221-277
Shakespeare and Milton
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CONTENTS
The Miltonic sublimity.
Intense personality of Milton's poetry.
Its austere purity
Its immense erudition
Its religious faith
Preparation of practical life.
Milton's parentage and training
He takes part in the struggle for liberty .
His pamphlets, their eloquence and their bitterness
His fierceness of denunciation
His infelicitous marriage . .
His "Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce"
He loses his sight
Blindness shuts him in to the supernatural
Scheme of the universe in the "Paradise Lost"
Temptation and fall of our first parents.
The Paradise Regained"
Can the highest poetry be didactic?
Must poetry conform to correct science?
Milton's 66 Treatise of Christian Doctrine
The Scriptures an infallible divine revelation
An Arminian doctrine of divine decrees
An Arian doctrine of the person of Christ
A Monistic doctrine of creation...
A Traducian doctrine of the origin of the soul
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An orthodox doctrine of anthropology and soteriology 265
A doctrine of soul-sleeping in eschatology
266
A Baptist doctrine of the church and the ordinances. 269
A final Quaker element in his religion
270
Influence of Roger Williams upon Milton
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What is the essence of Protestantism?
Milton shows the creative power of true religion . .276