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Browning and Dogma Seven Lectures on Browning's Attitude towards Dogmatic Religion

Browning and Dogma Seven Lectures on Browning's Attitude towards Dogmatic Religion

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BROWNING AND DOGMA

 

 

LONDON: GEORGE BELL AND SONS
PORTUGAL ST. LINCOLN’S INN, W.C.
CAMBRIDGE: DEIGHTON, BELL & CO.
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN CO.
BOMBAY: A. H. WHEELER & CO.

 

 

BROWNING AND DOGMA

SEVEN LECTURES ON BROWNING’S ATTITUDE
TOWARDS DOGMATIC RELIGION

 

BY
ETHEL M. NAISH
(FORMERLY SCHOLAR OF NEWNHAM COLLEGE, CAMB. HIST. TRIPOS)

 

 

LONDON
GEORGE BELL AND SONS
1906

 

 

CONTENTS

  PAGE
LECTURE I
Introductory, and Caliban upon Setebos 1
 
LECTURE II
Cleon 27
 
LECTURE III
Bishop Blougram’s Apology 61
 
LECTURE IV
Christmas Eve and Easter Day (i) 93
 
LECTURE V
Christmas Eve and Easter Day (ii) 123
 
LECTURE VI
Christmas Eve and Easter Day (iii) 147
 
LECTURE VII
La Saisiaz 179

 

 

SYNOPSIS

LECTURE I
Sources of Browning’s influence as a teacher.
Connection between the five poems of the Course.
Caliban upon Setebos—Origin of—Criticisms.
Characteristics of Caliban. Cf. Caliban of Shakespeare.
Analysis of Poem.
(i) Introductory (ll. 1-23).
(ii) Conception of Setebos.
  (a) Place of abode (ll. 24-25).
  (b) Creator of things animate and inanimate (ll. 26-55).
  (c) Motives of Creation: self-gratification or wantonness (ll. 55-84, 170-199).
  (d) Answer to prayers addressed by his creatures uncertain because result of caprice (ll. 85-97).
  (e) Main characteristic—Power, irresponsible and capricious (ll. 98-126, 200-240).
(iii) “The Quiet” and Caliban’s estimate of evil (ll. 127-141, 246-249).
Other lines of thought relating to:
A. Doctrine of Sacrifice.
B. A Future Life.
C. Indirect suggestion of necessity of an Incarnation of the Deity arising from negative conditions ascribed to “the Quiet.”
 
LECTURE II
CLEON
Cleon. Cf. Caliban: (i) Dramatic change; (ii) point of contact.
Greek conception of life—Influences affecting Cleon.
Analysis of Poem.
I. Introductory and descriptive (ll. 1-42).
II. Varied attainments of Cleon indicative of progress of race through development of complexity of nature (ll. 43-157).
Includes (ll. 115-126) Cleon’s conception of an Incarnation.
III. Answer to question of Protus, Is death the end to the man of thought as well as to the man of action? (ll. 158-323.)
  Increase of happiness not necessarily accompaniment of fuller knowledge (ll. 181-272).
  Fuller insight, attribute of artist-nature, rather productive of keener sense of loss in face of death (ll. 273-323).
Cf. Old Pictures in Florence, etc.
IV. Hence arises conception of necessity to man of future life (ll. 323-335.)

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