Includes bibliographical references (p. [405]-408) and index.
Contents:
To be Pompilia, not the Fisc : Browning and the irony of humility -- Emptying ourselves of what we think we know -- Christian irony and the image of the invisible God -- The meek do inherit the earth -- What is the meaning of the turning years? : Virgil's Aeneid -- The play beyond the play -- Time beyond time : Augustine's Confessions -- Time and the body : Dante's Divine comedy -- The fullness of time : Shakespeare's Tempest -- Time and the neighbor : J.R.R. Tolkien's Leaf, by Niggle -- The stone rejected -- The power of obedience -- The power of the weak : Manzoni's I Promessi Sposi -- Not in the garden of Epicurus -- The true eros -- A sonneteer in love : Spenser's Amoretti -- Gerald Manley Hopkins and the dangerous love of God -- A meeting of youth : Dostoyevsky's The brothers Karamazov -- Wisdom from a child : Dicken's A Christmas carol -- The child at the end of the journey -- Pearl.
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