342 pp, large 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. "The voice out of the whirlwind speaking to Job. Jacob's ladder. The Tower of Babel. The Garden of Eden. Cain and Abel. The Resurrection. The Harrowing of Hell. Northrop Frye weaves these eternal themes and images through his second study of the Bible and literature. He shows how the simple, primitive elements of myth have over the centuries given to our literature its structures and power. How the Bible, with its special, propheti c m o d e of verbal expression, resonates through the secular literary tradition: Chaucer, Shakespeare, Spenser, Shelley, Blake, T.S. Eliot. Steering between the antiliterary prejudices of many religious scholars and the antireligious prejudices of ma ny m od e rn literary critics, he demonstrates how the Holy Book can shed light on the poetic unity of widely different works." Tiny bump to bottom corner of front board. Dust jacket has light edge wrinkling, light rubbing/soiling. VG+/VG -

BIBLE LITERATURE MYTH HOLY BOOK POETRY VULGATE METAPHOR SPIRIT