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When poetry and religion meet, the poet contemplates the spirit, the soul, death, fate, purpose, meaning—that is, one or another of the issues we have seen raised in philosophical terms in the previous chapter—but brings to the interpretation of these issues some system that derives from church doctrine or some conception of God or divine principle of human destiny.
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Miller, R., Greenberg, R.A. (1981). Poetry and Religion. In: Poetry. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06317-8_14
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