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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Page 1609
... Temple to his friend Nicholas Ferrar , requesting him to burn it or print it as he saw fit , and two editions were published before the end of that year . The Temple comprises almost all his surviving English poems , and it is upon this ...
... Temple to his friend Nicholas Ferrar , requesting him to burn it or print it as he saw fit , and two editions were published before the end of that year . The Temple comprises almost all his surviving English poems , and it is upon this ...
Page 1613
... TEMPLE The Printers to the Reader The Dedication The Church - Porch Perirrhanterium Superliminare The Church The Altar The Sacrifice The Thanksgiving The Reprisal The Agony The Sinner Good Friday Redemption Sepulchre Easter Easter ...
... TEMPLE The Printers to the Reader The Dedication The Church - Porch Perirrhanterium Superliminare The Church The Altar The Sacrifice The Thanksgiving The Reprisal The Agony The Sinner Good Friday Redemption Sepulchre Easter Easter ...
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... Temple The Holy Communion Love Trinity Sunday Evensong The Knell Perseverance Poems from Izaak Walton's The Life of Mr George Herbert Sonnets To My Successor Additional English Poems To the Right Hon. the L. Chancellor To the Lady ...
... Temple The Holy Communion Love Trinity Sunday Evensong The Knell Perseverance Poems from Izaak Walton's The Life of Mr George Herbert Sonnets To My Successor Additional English Poems To the Right Hon. the L. Chancellor To the Lady ...
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... Temple , are briefer than the songs of complaint , praise , penitence and thanksgiving that make up the Book of Psalms of the sweetly singing David , but are more numerous . Valued over the centuries by discriminating readers , Herbert ...
... Temple , are briefer than the songs of complaint , praise , penitence and thanksgiving that make up the Book of Psalms of the sweetly singing David , but are more numerous . Valued over the centuries by discriminating readers , Herbert ...
Page 1620
... temple . Socially , he is also pushed and pulled between the goal of secular advancement and the obligation of religious calling , between the satisfying of pride and ambition and the yielding to priestly humility . We remember that ...
... temple . Socially , he is also pushed and pulled between the goal of secular advancement and the obligation of religious calling , between the satisfying of pride and ambition and the yielding to priestly humility . We remember that ...
Contents
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FURTHER READING | |
EasterWings | |
Sin | |
Modest and moderate joys are passing brave lines 24 where the contrast | |
Faith | |
The Holy Communion | |
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Affliction altar Angels Bemerton better blessing body breast catechising Cestum Chapter charity Christ Christian Church comfort Communion Corinthians country parson dear death discourse divine Donne Donne's doth earth especially eucharistic ev'n eyes Father fear Ferrar flesh George Herbert give glory God's grace grief hand hath heart heaven High Ercall holy honour Hutchinson Jesus John John Donne judgement King Lancelot Andrewes Little Gidding live Lord Luke Mary Magdalene Master Matthew mercy Nicholas Ferrar occasion parish poem poetry poor praise pray prayers priest Psalm Scripture sermon servants sins Song of Solomon Sonnet soul spirit St Paul Sunday sweet tears Temple thee thine things thou art thou didst thou dost thou hast thou shalt thought Title Trinity Sunday Twenty-third Psalm unto verse virtue Walton Westminster School Wherefore Woodnoth words