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Northrop Frye on Religion

1912–1991 Canada

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Read Blake or go to hell, that's my message to the modern world.

Between religion's "this is" and poetry's "but suppose this is" there must always be some kind of tension, until the possible and the actual meet at infinity.

Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (1957)

I don`t want the reduction of religion to aesthetics, but the abolition of aesthetics & incorporating of art with the Word of God. (p. 7)

Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts (2003)

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