CHAPTER XVII. CRASHAW AND MARVELL.
CHAPTER XVIII. A MOUNT OF VISION—HENRY VAUGHAN.
CHAPTER XIX. THE PLAIN.
CHAPTER XX. THE ROOTS OF THE HILLS.
CHAPTER XXI. THE NEW VISION.
CHAPTER XXII. THE FERVOUR OF THE IMPLICIT. INSIGHT OF THE HEART.
CHAPTER XXIII. THE QUESTIONING FERVOUR.
ENGLAND'S ANTIPHON.
INTRODUCTION.
If the act of worship be the highest human condition, it follows that the highest human art must find material in the modes of worship. The first poetry of a nation will not be religious poetry: the nation must have a history at least before it can possess any material capable of being cast into the mould of religious utterance; but, the nation once possessed of this material, poetry is the first form religious utterance will assume.