Literary Criticism
As Barbara Amell sets forth in the Overview, George MacDonald was an extraordinary lecturer and author on a wide variety of literary subjects. Poetry and drama were “a core element of his life…inseparable from what he regarded as holy.” His sermons often included quotes from Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Dante, and other poets, and his lectures on such figures were not unlike sermons. As one contemporary noted, “if he had not become one of the noblest of the Christian teachers of his age, he might have become its foremost literary critic.”
Literary Criticism
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