Religious Trends in English Poetry / / Hoxie Neale Fairchild.

Studies English poetry written between 1740-1780 for the religious thoughts and feelings while stressing the historical rather than the aesthetic or metaphysical uses of religion.

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1939]
©1939
Year of Publication:1939
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • PREFACE
  • CONTENTS
  • Part I. 1700-1720
  • I. Indifference, Negation, Scepticism
  • II. Poets of Controversy
  • III. Divine Poets
  • IV. Middle-Classicists
  • V. The Beginnings of Sentimentalism
  • Part II. 1720-1740
  • VI. Neither Christian Nor Very Sentimental
  • VII. Divine Poets
  • VIII. Non-Sentimental Christians
  • IX. Sentimentalism-Mild Cases
  • X. Sentimentalism-Severer Cases
  • XI. Pope and Thomson
  • XII. Protestantism and Sentimentalism
  • Appendix I. Primary Sources
  • Appendix II. Secondary Sources
  • Index of Names
  • Index of Topics