Title: The Christian renaissance
Subtitle: with interpretations of Dante, Shakespeare, and Goethe and new discussions of Oscar Wilde and the Gospel of Thomas
Description: The author extends his method of poetic interpretation, hitherto confined to Shakespearian studies, into a wider realm of poetic and religious symbolism, relating the work of Shakespeare, Dante, Goethe and other poets to the Bible and the dogmas of Christianity. The result is probably the first satisfying synthesis as yet attempted of the symbolism of Renaissance poetry and Christianity; a more necessary, because a more natural and profitable synthesis than that of science and religion.
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation, Bible as literature, Religion, Religion in literature, Religion in poetry, Christianity and literature, Christianity in literature, Bible, Criticism, interpretation, Christianity, Critique et interprétation, New Testament as literature
People: William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)