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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...

The Greeks, they say, were natural poets. Imagination conceived of nature as alive; each natural phenomenon, each movement of the spirit within, seemed due to a separate will; supernatural beings were thought to find in human affairs everywhere a field for their activity; the artistic instinct unconsciously wrought over this material; the innocent result was the gods of Greece. Alas for the theory, Homer himself furnishes the refutation of it. There is enough of the divine unity, spirituality, and
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