conversations.from: human
conversations.value: What could be a title for a book about English, Church, Times with the genre: Literature & Fiction, History & Criticism?
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature'
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Give me the first four paragraphs for this book.
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature
  We are so accustomed to the sight of a Bible, that it ceases to be a miracle to us.... But there is nothing in the world like it, or comparable to it. The sun in the firmament is nothing to it, if it be really – what it assumes to be – an actual direct communication from God to man. Take up your Bible with this idea, and look at it, and wonder at it. (Erskine, 1828, pp. 226–7)
  Although there is some ambiguity here in "what it assumes to be," hinting at the question of whether the Bible was directly communicated or not, Erskine is definite throughout this work on the Bible as full of "the idea and feeling of God" (p. 78). Such language suggests that even if the Bible were proven full of historical and scientific inaccuracies, it should still be respected and reverenced. Hallam was clearly more with Erskine than with Schleiermacher.
  As we know from Hallam's letters, Tennyson was reading Erskine in 1831 on his strong recommendation (Hallam, 1981, p. 446). A later recollection by Benjamin Jowett suggests that Tennyson also had knowledge of the German critical works circulating in Cambridge at the time:
  Once he said to me "I hate learning," by which I understood him to mean that he hated the minutiae of criticism compiled by the Dryasdusts. They seemed to him to have no life in them, and to arrive at no result. More than thirty years ago I remember his making what appeared at the time a very striking remark, namely, that "the true origin of Biblical criticism was to be ascribed not to Strauss, but to Niebuhr, who lived a generation earlier." (H. Tennyson, 1897, II, p. 463)
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Give me four more paragraphs.
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: Metzger, B. M. and Coogan, M. D., eds (1993) The Oxford Companion to the Bible. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
  Pearce, Joseph (2000) Literary Converts: Spiritual Inspiration in an Age of Unbelief. Harper Collins, London.
  Ruskin, John (1903–12) The Works of John Ruskin, library edn, ed. E. T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn, 39 volumes. George Allen, London.
  Sutherland, John (1998) Is Heathcliff a Murderer? Puzzles in 19th-Century Fiction. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Swap the first and the last sentence.
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: Oxford University Press, Oxford. M. and Coogan, M. D., eds (1993) The Oxford Companion to the Bible. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
  Pearce, Joseph (2000) Literary Converts: Spiritual Inspiration in an Age of Unbelief. Harper Collins, London.
  Ruskin, John (1903–12) The Works of John Ruskin, library edn, ed. E. T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn, 39 volumes. George Allen, London.
  Sutherland, John (1998) Is Heathcliff a Murderer? Puzzles in 19th-Century Fiction.Metzger, B.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Give me the last five paragraphs.
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: Sinfield, M. (1982) "Wilfred Owen's 'Mental Cases': Source and Structure," Notes and Queries (August), 339–41.
  Spear, H.D. (1975) " 'I Too Saw God': The Religious Allusions in Wilfred Owen's Poetry," English 24:119, 35–40.
  Stallworthy, J. (2002) Anthem for Doomed Youth: Twelve Soldier Poets of the First World War. Constable and Robinson, London.
  Stallworthy, J. (2008) Survivors' Songs: From Maldon to the Somme. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
  Winter, J. (1995) Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.