Classics of the soul's quest
By: by R.E. Welsh
Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton
Published: 1923
Place of publication: London;Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
Subjects: Religion in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-340) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introductory survey; title: 2. St. Augustine's "Confessions"; title: 3. Dante's "Vision": the "Divine comedy": A: The Seer, the situation, and the worldview; title: 4. Dante's "Vision": the "Divine comedy": B: Night: the "Inferno"; title: 5. Dante's "Vision": the "Divine comedy": C: Dawn: the "Purgatorio"; title: 6. Dante's "Vision": the "Divine comedy": D: Noon: the "Paradiso"; title: 7. Tauler's "Sermons"; title: 8. "Theologia Germanica"; title: 9. Thomas à Kempis' "Imitatio Christi"; title: 10. Bunyan's "Grace Abounding" and "Pilgrim's Progress"; title: 11. William Law's "Serious call": Jacob Behmen and John Wesley; title: 12. Tolstoy's "Confessions"; title: 13. Marcus Aurelius in Walter Pater's "Marius the Epicurean"; title: 14. Rabindranath Tagore's "Song offerings" and "Meditations"; and his Indian precursors; title: 15. The significance of the same: comparisons -Stoics, Omar Khayyám; title: and the distinctiveness of Christian experience; title: Appendix 1: Kindred classics in brief; title: Pascal's "Thoughts" and Amiel's "Journal"; Sta. Teresa, Quietists, Madame Guyon, and Quakers; Jeremy Taylor's "Holy living" and "Holy dying"; Samuel Rutherford's "Letters"; and Newman's "Apologia pro vita sua"; title: Appendix 2: Select list of books on classics; title: Index.