The new Orpheus essays toward a Christian poetic.

Author/creator Scott, Nathan A. editor.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Sheed and Ward, [©1964]
Descriptionxiv, 431 pages ; 22 cm
Subjects

Contents Towards a Christian aesthetic / Dorothy Sayers -- Art and sacrament / David Jones -- Denis de Rougemont / Religion and the mission of the artist / Postscript: Christianity and art / W.H. Auden -- The writer as Christian / Malcolm Ross -- The symbolic imagination: the mirrors of Dante / Allen Tate -- The theological imagination / William F. Lynch -- The modern experiment in criticism: a theological appraisal / Nathan A. Scott, Jr. -- Criticism and theological standards / Vincent Buckley -- The autonomy of the work of art: modern criticism and the Christian tradition / G. Ingli James -- The Jinnee in the well-wrought urn / Walter J. Ong -- Religion and literature / T.S. Eliot -- Poetry and morals: a relation reargued / W.K. Wimsatt, Jr. -- A Christian theory of dramatic tragedy / Preston T. Roberts, Jr. -- Comedy / Christopher Fry -- Truth and the art of the novel / D.S. Savage -- Poetry and crisis / Martin Turnell -- The finality of the drama / Gabriel Marcel -- Theological reflections on cinema / Harvey G. Cox -- The death of the imagination / Elizabeth Sewell -- The image of man in modern European literature / Charles Moeller -- Art and theological meaning / Amos N. Wilder.
Local noteLittle-58923--305131051676
Bibliography noteBibliography: p. 420-431.
LCCN 64013566