England's Antiphon

George MacDonald (1824 - 1905)

"In this book I have sought to trace the course of our religious poetry from an early period of our literary history. ... [I]f its poetry be the cream of a people's thought, some true indications of the history of its religious feeling must be found in its religious verse, and I hope I have not altogether failed in setting forth these indications. My chief aim, however, will show itself to have been the mediating towards an intelligent and cordial sympathy betwixt my readers and the writers from whom I have quoted. In this I have some confidence of success. Heartily do I throw this my small pebble at the head of the great Sabbath-breaker Schism." - From the Preface

Genre(s): Anthologies, Christianity - Other

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 00 Preface and Introduction Devorah Allen
00:07:54
Play 01 Chapter 1: Sacred Lyrics of the Thirteenth Century Devorah Allen
00:24:40
Play 02 Chapter 2: The Miracle Plays, and Other Poems of the Fourteenth Century KHand
00:21:08
Play 03 Chapter 2, continued KHand
00:16:45
Play 04 Chapter 3: The Fifteenth Century KHand
00:16:26
Play 05 Chapter 4: Introduction to the Elizabethan Era KHand
00:10:32
Play 06 Chapter 5: Spenser and His Friends Owlivia
00:27:21
Play 07 Chapter 5, continued Owlivia
00:29:45
Play 08 Chapter 6: Lord Bacon and His Coevals Vinny Lerin
00:18:30
Play 09 Chapter 6, continued Vinny Lerin
00:15:23
Play 10 Chapter 7: Dr. Donne Patrick Wallace
00:21:08
Play 11 Chapter 8: Bishop Hall and George Sandys Alan Mapstone
00:12:57
Play 12 Chapter 9: A Few of the Elizabethan Dramatists KHand
00:19:08
Play 13 Chapter 10: Sir John Beaumont and Drummond of Hawthornden Kerry Adams
00:19:15
Play 14 Chapter 11: The Brothers Fletcher Kerry Adams
00:18:53
Play 15 Chapter 12: Wither, Herrick, and Quarles KHand
00:22:05
Play 16 Chapter 13: George Herbert Owlivia
00:33:09
Play 17 Chapter 14: John Milton Vinny Lerin
00:28:13
Play 18 Chapter 15: Edmund Waller, Thomas Brown, and Jeremy Taylor Owlivia
00:19:09
Play 19 Chapter 16: Henry More and Richard Baxter KHand
00:22:46
Play 20 Chapter 17: Crashaw and Marvell KHand
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Play 21 Chapter 18: A Mount of Vision—Henry Vaughan Owlivia
00:26:04
Play 22 Chapter 18, continued Owlivia
00:27:16
Play 23 Chapter 19: The Plain KHand
00:18:08
Play 24 Chapter 20: The Roots of the Hills KHand
00:15:39
Play 25 Chapter 21: The New Vision KHand
00:18:24
Play 26 Chapter 22: The Fervour of the Implicit. Insight of the Heart KHand
00:20:36
Play 27 Chapter 23: The Questioning Fervour Kerry Adams
00:14:27