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In his day job, Augustus Strong was president and professor of Biblical theology at the Rochester Theological Seminary, and author of Systematic Theology. On summer vacations, he wrote about the theology of poetry. Revealing Strong’s deep knowledge and appreciation of the ‘literary immortals’ of Western literature, The Great Poets and their Theology discusses the work of nine poets with an eye...

tells his pupils that there are two things which they are expected to learn thoroughly: the first is the Bible, and the second is Homer. He speaks wisely, for these are the two great records of the early world; Homer gives us the secular record, as the Bible gives us the sacred. Matthew Arnold has summed up for us the general characteristics of Homer’s poetry. He makes them to be: first, rapidity of movement; secondly, plainness of thought; thirdly, simplicity of expression; fourthly, nobility. Ballad
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