Christian Fantasy: From 1200 to the PresentThis is the first account of invented stories involving the Christian supernatural. In their development a central concern is found to be the fantasy-making human imagination itself, at first seen as a obstacle to Christian purpose, but more recently given freer rein. |
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Page vii
... Pearl 5 Spenser : The Faerie Queene , Book I 6 Marlowe : Dr Faustus 7 The Metaphysical Poets ix 1 12 42 50 73 2 2 2 2 × × 21 93 8 Milton : Paradise Lost 102 9 Bunyan : The Pilgrim's Progress 115 10 Swedenborg : Heaven and Hell 131 11 ...
... Pearl 5 Spenser : The Faerie Queene , Book I 6 Marlowe : Dr Faustus 7 The Metaphysical Poets ix 1 12 42 50 73 2 2 2 2 × × 21 93 8 Milton : Paradise Lost 102 9 Bunyan : The Pilgrim's Progress 115 10 Swedenborg : Heaven and Hell 131 11 ...
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... Pearl is a ' veray avysyoun ' , at the same time as it is a dream re - created by the writer of the poem . The image of the New Jerusalem therein is close to the believed reality of St John the Divine . Dante's other worlds are meant to ...
... Pearl is a ' veray avysyoun ' , at the same time as it is a dream re - created by the writer of the poem . The image of the New Jerusalem therein is close to the believed reality of St John the Divine . Dante's other worlds are meant to ...
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... Pearl , and Milton , Blake and particularly Charles Williams owe much to the poem . Spenser may be indebted to the French Queste ; Bunyan has much in common with Spenser , Blake looks often to Swedenborg ; MacDonald to both these and to ...
... Pearl , and Milton , Blake and particularly Charles Williams owe much to the poem . Spenser may be indebted to the French Queste ; Bunyan has much in common with Spenser , Blake looks often to Swedenborg ; MacDonald to both these and to ...
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... Grail , in search of other worlds in Dante , Pearl or C. S. Lewis , between Heaven , Hell and Earth in Paradise Lost , though Fairy Land in Spenser and MacDonald , on pilgrimage to the Celestial City in Bunyan Introduction 9.
... Grail , in search of other worlds in Dante , Pearl or C. S. Lewis , between Heaven , Hell and Earth in Paradise Lost , though Fairy Land in Spenser and MacDonald , on pilgrimage to the Celestial City in Bunyan Introduction 9.
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... pearls standing on the other side of it , and beyond her a golden , four - walled city which is gradually seen to be identical with the New Jerusalem of Revelation ? Would that not surprise them with God better than any other means ...
... pearls standing on the other side of it , and beyond her a golden , four - walled city which is gradually seen to be identical with the New Jerusalem of Revelation ? Would that not surprise them with God better than any other means ...
Contents
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The Middle English Pearl | 42 |
The Faerie Queene Book I | 50 |
Dr Faustus | 73 |
The Metaphysical Poets | 94 |
42 | 107 |
The Pilgrims Progress | 115 |
Heaven and Hell | 131 |
The Little Black Boy and The Marriage | 144 |
Modern Christian Fantasy | 156 |
George MacDonalds Fairy Tales | 164 |
The WaterBabies | 330 |
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allegory angels Anodos Beatrice become Bible biblical Blake Bunyan C. S. Lewis Cambridge century character Charles Williams Christ Christian fantasy Church Commedia creation Dante Dante's death described desire devil divine dragon Duessa earth eternal evil fact Faerie Queene Fairy Land faith fantastic worlds Faustus Faustus's feel figure further George MacDonald God's Grail Heaven and Hell Holy human idea imagery imagination invented J. R. R. Tolkien journey Kingsley Kingsley's lady Lewis's Lilith Lion literary literature London Manlove Medieval Mephostophilis Milton mind Modern Fantasy moral mystic myth narrative nature North Wind novel Paradise Lost pattern Pearl Perelandra Phantastes picture Pilgrim's Progress planet play poem poet portrays Princess and Curdie Purgatory realise reality Redcrosse Satan science fiction seems seen sense Shardik significance soul Spenser spiritual story supernatural Swedenborg Tamburlaine tells theology things Tolkien true truth University Press Victorian vision Water-Babies whole writers