A Dish of Orts: Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespere
by George MacDonald
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There are in whose notion education would seem to consist in the production of a certain repose through the development of this and that faculty, and the depression, if not eradication, of this and that other faculty.Tags
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Overall, this is an excellent book. It has great advice on writing , on the imagination , and on the works and inspiration of Shakespeare for his works. I do have some concerns about his views on the authority and inspiration of the Christian Holy Scriptures, however. MacDonald seems to argue for reserving the moniker of the Word of God only for Jesus Christ. The apostles and prophets of Holy Writ clearly discern the writings of the law, the prophets, and their own writings as having the authority to say, “Thus says the Lord.”
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George MacDonald was born on December 10, 1824 in Huntley, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. He attended University in Aberdeen in 1840 and then went on to Highbury College in 1848 where he studied to be a Congregational Minister, receiving his M. A. After being a minister for several years, he became a lecturer in English literature at Kings College in show more London before becoming a full-time writer. He wrote fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. In 1955, he wrote his first important original work, a long religious poem entitled Within and Without. He is best known for his fantasy novels Phantastes, The Princess and the Goblin, At the Back of the North Wind, and Lilith and fairy tales including The Light Princess, The Golden Key, and The Wise Woman. In 1863, he published David Eiginbrod, the first of a dozen novels that were set in Scotland and based on the lives of rural Scots. He died on September 18. 1905. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- A Dish of Orts: Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespere
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- 1893
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