Beacon Lights of History, Volume 3 part 2: Renaissance and Reformation

Beacon Lights of History, Volume 3 part 2: Renaissance and Reformation

Beacon Lights of History, Volume 3 part 2: Renaissance and ReformationThe antiquity of Poetry The greatness of...
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Beacon Lights of History, Volume 3 part 2: Renaissance and Reformation

Beacon Lights of History, Volume 3 part 2: Renaissance and Reformation

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Beacon Lights of History, Volume 3 part 2: Renaissance and Reformation

$19.99 $9.99
Author: Lord, John,1810-1894
Format: eBook
Language: English

Beacon Lights of History, Volume 3 part 2: Renaissance and Reformation

The antiquity of Poetry The greatness of Poets Their influence on Civilization The true poet one of the rarest of men The pre-eminence of Homer, Dante, Shakspeare, and Goethe Characteristics of Dante His precocity His moral wisdom and great attainments His terrible scorn and his isolation State of society when Dante was born His banishment Guelphs and Ghibellines Dante stimulated to his great task by an absorbing sentiment Beatrice Dante's passion for Beatrice analyzed The worship of ideal qualities the foundation of lofty love The mystery of love Its exalted realism Dedication of Dante's life-labors to the departed Beatrice The Divine Comedy; a study The Inferno; its graphic pictures Its connection with the ideas of the Middle Ages The physical hell of Dante in its connection with the Mediaeval doctrine of Retribution The Purgatorio; its moral wisdom Origin of the doctrine of Purgatory Its consolation amid the speculations of despair The Paradiso Its discussion of grand themes The Divina Commedia makes an epoch in civilization Dante's life an epic His exalted character His posthumous influence The characteristics of the fourteenth century Its great events and characters State of society in England when Chaucer arose His early life His intimacy with John of Gaunt, the great Duke of Lancaster His prosperity His poetry The Canterbury Tales Their fidelity to Nature and to English life Connection of his poetry with the formation of the English Language The Pilgrims of the Canterbury Tales Chaucer's views of women and of love His description of popular sports and amusements The preponderance of country life in the fourteenth century Chaucer's description of popular superstitions Of ecclesiastical abuses His emancipation from the ideas of the Middle Ages Peculiarities of his poetry Chaucer's private life The respect in which he was held Influence of his poetry ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 1499
Author: Lord, John
Release Date: Oct 1, 1998
Format: eBook
Language: English

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