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BROWNING AND DOGMA




  LONDON: GEORGE BELL AND SONS
  PORTUGAL ST. LINCOLN'S INN, W.C.
  CAMBRIDGE: DEIGHTON, BELL & CO.
  NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN CO.
  BOMBAY: A. H. WHEELER & CO.




  BROWNING AND DOGMA

  SEVEN LECTURES ON BROWNING'S ATTITUDE
  TOWARDS DOGMATIC RELIGION


  BY ETHEL M. NAISH
  (FORMERLY SCHOLAR OF NEWNHAM COLLEGE, CAMB. HIST. TRIPOS)


  LONDON
  GEORGE BELL AND SONS
  1906




CONTENTS


                                              PAGE

  LECTURE I
    INTRODUCTORY, AND CALIBAN UPON SETEBOS       1

  LECTURE II
    CLEON                                       27

  LECTURE III
    BISHOP BLOUGRAM'S APOLOGY                   61

  LECTURE IV
    CHRISTMAS EVE AND EASTER DAY (i)            93

  LECTURE V
    CHRISTMAS EVE AND EASTER DAY (ii)          123

  LECTURE VI
    CHRISTMAS EVE AND EASTER DAY (iii)         147

  LECTURE VII
    LA SAISIAZ                                 179




SYNOPSIS


  LECTURE I

  Sources of Browning's influence as a teacher.

  Connection between the five poems of the Course.

  _Caliban upon Setebos_--Origin of--Criticisms.

  Characteristics of Caliban. Cf. Caliban of Shakespeare.

  Analysis of Poem.
      (i) Introductory (ll. 1-23).
     (ii) Conception of Setebos.
          (_a_) Place of abode (ll. 24-25).
          (_b_) Creator of things animate and inanimate (ll. 26-55).
          (_c_) Motives of Creation: self-gratification or wantonness (ll.
                  55-84, 170-199).
          (_d_) Answer to prayers addressed by his creatures uncertain
                  because result of caprice (ll. 85-97).
          (_e_) Main characteristic--Power, irresponsible and capricious
                  (ll. 