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ix, [1] pages, 1 leaf, 250, [1] pages 22 cm Poets as interpreters.- Homer: what he believed and what he valued.- Aeschylus: his genius and spiritual insights.- Lucretius: a materialistic philosophy becomes noble poetry.- Virgil: who placed an ideal before imperial Rome.- The meaning of life in the ancient poets.- Dante: the supreme poet of Christianity.- Shakespeare: what he admired and what he believed.- The supreme epic: religion as poetry.- What is common to all
- Author
- Dinsmore, Charles Allen, 1860-1941
- Publisher
- Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company
- Published
- 1937
- Language
- EN
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