“Mr. Stuart goes quietly to work to draw a romantic environment and succeeds in placing in it a number of people who, like volcanoes smolder without exploding until the right time comes.”
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Stubbs, Charles William. Christ of English poetry: being the Hulsean lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge, 1904–5. **$2. Dutton.
Dr. Stubbs calls four poets representing four periods in English history to witness to the personality of Christ. They are Cynewulf, Langland, Shakespeare and Browning. Some of the poems of each man are analyzed and there have been added full explanatory notes to each lecture.
“The Christianity of these lectures is a little too vague and indefinite to be either historically true or practically valuable. This is not to deny that the argument of the lecturer is often clever, and that contact with a spirit so tolerant, so hopeful, so appreciative of the best in English life, is refreshing and delightful.”
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“They exhibit the preacher’s inevitable limitations. The most serious of these is the determination to force an edifying conclusion out of matter which in fact refuses to provide one. Many interesting things are said and quoted, both in the lectures and in the notes: but the book as a whole must be admitted to be a disappointment.”
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