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Religious Themes in Literature



Religious Themesin Literature
Some of the greatest works of the Western world are infused with religious themes not apparent from the casual reader's view. Here's a sampling of such works that were so informed by the power of the King James Version of the Bible.
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 The Holy Bible, King James Version

 Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (John Bunyan)

 Divine Comedy, Paradise (Longfellow’s Translation) by Dante (Dante Alighieri)

 Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville (Herman Melville)

 The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Nathaniel Hawthorne)

 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (Mark Twain)

 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Fyodor Dostoevsky)

 War and Peace by Tolstoy (Leo Tolstoy)

 Death Be Not Proud: (From Divine Meditations) by John Donne (John Donne)

 A Divine Image from Poems of William Blake (William Blake)

 Rabbi Ben Ezra by Robert Browning (Robert Browning)

 Poems by Emily Dickinson (Emily Dickinson)

 The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot (T. S. Eliot)

 When You Are Old: (From the Rose) by W. B. Yeats (William Yeats)

 On Paradise Lost, by John Milton (John Milton)

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