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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...

PREFACE –––––– THE essays which follow are summer recreations. The author is well aware that he does business on small capital, and that most of the capital is borrowed. He only hopes to repay what has been lent him, with the addition of some moderate interest. It is not maintained that the poets are conscious theologians. In their vocation as seers, however, they have glimpses of truth in theology, as well as in philosophy and physics. From their higher point of view, indeed, they sometimes descry
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