Poetry and belief. Paradise lost: God defended -- God and nature -- Poetic attitudes to God from the psalms to Dante -- Mood poetry: the dilemma of Solipsism -- Poetry and science: the poetry of doubt, atheism and stoicism -- Calvinism and the poetic imagination: from Burns to Hogg, problems of antinomianism -- The American experience: From Puritanism through post-Puritanism to agnosticism: Edward Taylor, Emily Dickinson, Wallace Stevens -- Types of vision: Edwin Muir and Hugh MacDiarmid -- Poetry and belief.
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