[Lecture at Lake Forest College, Chicago, Illinois on October 13, 1962] / John Logan.

Recorded at Lake Forest College in Chicago, Illinois on October 13, 1962 on a 7 inch Knight reel-to-reel tape.

Lecture on poetry and religion by John Logan at Lake Forest College. Lecture focuses on the relationship between poetry and natural religion (or natural piety). Logan talks about Dante's Inferno and how a poet becomes hypocritical in writing relgious verse when he or she is "unholy." He discusesses "Revisit to the room of a saint" and talks about the war between good and evil. Logan references Dylan Thomas and how his poetry is influenced by Christian imagery.

John Logan.

The Poetry Collection of the University Libraries. Digital conversion was made possible through a 2009 National Endowment for the Humanities grant.

1962

Sound recording

LOG008A

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