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Summer 1955 • Vol. XVII No. 3 • Book Reviews |

Religious Meditation and Religious Poetry

The Poetry Of Meditation: A Study in English Religious Literature of the Seventeenth Century by Louis L. Martz. Yale University Press. $5.00.

Mr. Martz’s book is everywhere informed and informative, nowhere leaving the reader at a loss to know whether one is being tendered the demonstrable or the hypothetic; and his book is, by virtue of its style, the work of a literary man.

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Austin Warren (1899-1986) was a literary critic and professor of English. He is well known for his collaboration with René Wellek on the Theory of Literature (1949) as well as his collection of essays Rage for Order (1948). He was also an influential literary scholar, writing books on Pope, Hawthorne, the elder Henry James, and Crashaw.

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The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson edited by Ralph L. Rusk. Columbia University Press. Six volumes. $30.00One who remembers the exact apologia which “Uriel” sent the Rev. Henry Ware after […]

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