"The fourteenth work published ... on the William McKean Brown Memorial Publication Fund."
Contents
Three addresses: The testimony of Tolstoy. Whitman's mysticism. The Augustan citadel.-- Poets and poetry: The cult of symbolism. Gerard Hopkins: a centenary tribute. The conflict of priest and poet in Hopkins. The dreaming mind. Christian verse. Donne's Holy sonnets. Dorothy Wordsworth. Coleridge: an obituary. The death theme in Rilke's life and poetry. A note on Rilke and the First World War. Post-Renaissance man. The hidden Tennyson. Edmund Blunden's later poetry.--The realm of spirit: Kierkegaard and the present age. Santayana's philosophy and some critical afterthoughts. Thomas Paine and the Bible. The poetics of religion. 'Be not anxious ...' Thoughts on the Dhammapada. Rabindranath Tagore. What is man? The dream of Ravan. Science and the self. The quest of the true act.