The Complete English Poems

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Penguin UK, 7. okt 2004 - 512 pages
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George Herbert combined the intellectual and the spiritual, the humble and the divine, to create some of the most moving devotional poetry in the English language. His deceptively simple verse uses the ingenious arguments typical of seventeenth-century 'metaphysical' poets, and unusual imagery drawn from musical structures, the natural world and domestic activity to explore a mosaic of Biblical themes. From the wit and wordplay of 'The Pulley' and the formal experimentation of 'Easter Wings' and 'Paradise', to the intense, highly personal relationship between man and God portrayed in 'The Collar' and 'Redemption', the works collected here show the transcendental power of divine love.

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Contents

INTRODUCTION
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
TABLE OF DATES
FURTHER READING
A NOTE ON THE TEXTS
A NOTE ON METRE
THE TEMPLE
THE CHURCHPORCH
ENGLISH POEMS IN THE WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPT NOT INCLUDED IN THE TEMPLE
POEMS FROM IZAAK WALTONS THE LIFE OF MR GEOR GE HERBERT
ADDITIONAL ENGLISH POEMS
A PRIEST TO THE TEMPLE
IZAAK WALTONS THE LIFE OF MR GEORGE HERBERT
A SELECTION OF HERBERTS LATIN VERSE
NOTES
INDEX OF TITLES

THE CHURCH
THE CHURCH MILITANT
INDEX OF FIRST LINES
Copyright

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About the author (2004)

George Herbert was born in 1593. He was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was appointed Reader in Rhetoric in 1618, and PUblic Orator in 1620. Though he seemed destined for a great public career, attracting the attention of influential patrons, including King James I. However, when his patrons died, Herbert resigned from parliament and took holy orders in 1626, becoming rector of a tiny parish on Salisbury Plain. He died in 1633.


John Tobin is currently a Professor of English Literature at the University of Massachusetts. he has published widely on the sources of Renaissance poetry.

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PealkiriThe Complete English Poems
AutorGeorge Herbert
ContributorJohn Tobin
PublisherPenguin UK, 2004
ISBN014196586X, 9780141965864
Length512 pages
  
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