The Complete English PoemsPenguin UK, 7. okt 2004 - 512 pages 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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... Donne dedicated his elegy 'Autumnal Beauty'. He was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was appointed Reader in Rhetoric in 1618 and Public Orator in 1620. Herbert was an excellent Greek and Latin ...
... Donne dedicated his elegy 'Autumnal Beauty'. He was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was appointed Reader in Rhetoric in 1618 and Public Orator in 1620. Herbert was an excellent Greek and Latin ...
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... Donne – and in the additional appreciation of Herbert's images, rhythms and phrases being reworked in such nineteenth- and twentieth-century poets as Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Thomas Hardy and Elizabeth Bishop. Fourth ...
... Donne – and in the additional appreciation of Herbert's images, rhythms and phrases being reworked in such nineteenth- and twentieth-century poets as Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Thomas Hardy and Elizabeth Bishop. Fourth ...
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... Donne, and that his eldest brother, Edward Herbert, the author of Autobiography, one of the most extraordinarily eccentric self-portraits ever written, was for a time King James's ambassador to France as well as the author of the first ...
... Donne, and that his eldest brother, Edward Herbert, the author of Autobiography, one of the most extraordinarily eccentric self-portraits ever written, was for a time King James's ambassador to France as well as the author of the first ...
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... Donne's delayed vocation, one that took place only after King James had pronounced, 'I will prefer Mr. Donne in the Church and in no way else'. Herbert entered the.
... Donne's delayed vocation, one that took place only after King James had pronounced, 'I will prefer Mr. Donne in the Church and in no way else'. Herbert entered the.
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... Donne, should not create the post-hocergo-propter hoc1 fallacy that after Herbert lost the chance for secular advancement he therefore chose to be a priest. Certain it is that Herbert was a very able younger son of a prominent family ...
... Donne, should not create the post-hocergo-propter hoc1 fallacy that after Herbert lost the chance for secular advancement he therefore chose to be a priest. Certain it is that Herbert was a very able younger son of a prominent family ...
Contents
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 | |
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