Jesus

Some poems here are again strongly anti-religious. LSB excoriates religious institutions in In and Out of Church, mocking: Heaven to let—to paying lodger;
Ah, you canting devil-dodger,
Damn not us who spurn your...

As usual, Millay writes often here of death. In the title poem death, which claims the buck for the sake of his antlers, is set against Life, looking out attentive from the eyes of the...

The first section of Echoes, which comprises nearly ninety percent of the book, includes several poems that describe personal and historical events of importance to the author with fervently religious language. Five of these...

This is the contentious core of the novel: that the seducer's sin of seduction is far graver than that of an innocent girl who lets herself be seduced. Ruth's faults are called venial errors...

The creed or philosophy of Utilitarianism held that human actions ought to be directed towards (in the well-known phrase of Jeremy Bentham ) the greatest happiness of the greatest number. Mill argued that utility is...

The spiritual director of the nun Margaret Clement the younger seems not to have had much imaginative grasp on this family history, since ES represents him as astonished at the great courage and magnanimity which...

In 1924, the year that the Nationalists come to power through alliance with the Labour Party , Nathaniel is killed in a mine explosion and Evelyn comes to work as housekeeper for Harold and Julia...

The poems in pastoral form include religious meditations, hymns for Christmas, Easter, and other Christian festivals, love complaints, and addresses to abstracts such as Pride and Sincerity. Despair is a dramatic mini-narrative, beginning Moments on...

Dismas, a near-contemporary of Jesus Christ , is a ruthless, conscienceless robber; but a touching prologue presents him as an abused child, hungering for love and beaten by his ruthless, conscienceless robber father if he...

The narrative is told in the first person to you, LC 's interlocutor Jeanne Megnen , and divided into five journal or diary entries dated 23-27 August 1943. Across those entries LC recounts her...

Cope makes free with the category Tumps (typically useless male poets), yet her poems to or about men are typically loving in tone: for her father, her husband, George Herbert (who is Dear George although...

The Yoga of Christ, or the Science of the Soul claims to illuminate, at least in part, the Truth, divine and living of Jesus 's words. These, it says, had for centuries lain hidden beneath...

In it Jesus comforts a mill-girl who is injured and dying after the terrible industrial accident.

It takes on anti-semitic prejudice, making the point that Jesus Christ was a Jewish boy, even while Dinah Mulock also asserts that the days of religious persecution are over. She argues by way of...

Quoting several of the street ballads at length, AG argues that they are a means of recovering the suppressed history of Ireland, which having been forbidden in the national schools, has lifted up its...