ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book discusses the oldest, darkest and most brilliant passage in Joyce's Finnegans Wake; the dream mass, a Eucharistic feast that is celebrated in the coinherence of the cosmic sacrament with Irish mythology and Dublin pub. It explores a mixture of personal reflection and a review of a local history in which many people have played their part. The book is concerned with the absolute importance of theology and literature flow from the fathers of the Oxford Movement, and above all John Henry Newman and John Keble. In short, Keble anchors his sense of the close relationship between poetry and religion in close readings of Greek and Latin poets, above all Homer, and the tragic dramas of Aeschylus, and Virgil. Keble allows the poetry to speak for itself in a rediscovery of the theology that is always at the heart of his concerns.
