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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... blood that is wine. Herbert, by church affiliation, by social status, by religious belief, was always already in the middle of a paradoxical universe. With his classical education and religious commitment, he was Janus-faced in the ...
... blood that is wine. Herbert, by church affiliation, by social status, by religious belief, was always already in the middle of a paradoxical universe. With his classical education and religious commitment, he was Janus-faced in the ...
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... blood of Christ: otherwise than in this respect he could find nothing to glory or comfort himself with, neither in this nor in any other thing. And these are but a few of many that might be said, which we have chosen to premise as a ...
... blood of Christ: otherwise than in this respect he could find nothing to glory or comfort himself with, neither in this nor in any other thing. And these are but a few of many that might be said, which we have chosen to premise as a ...
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... blood. It blots thy lesson written in thy soul; 10 The holy lines cannot be understood. How dare those eyes upon a Bible look, Much less towards God, whose lust is all their book? 15 20 25 30 3 Abstain wholly, or wed. Thy THE CHURCH ...
... blood. It blots thy lesson written in thy soul; 10 The holy lines cannot be understood. How dare those eyes upon a Bible look, Much less towards God, whose lust is all their book? 15 20 25 30 3 Abstain wholly, or wed. Thy THE CHURCH ...
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... blood must pay down all his fear: But love is lost; the way of friendship's gone, Though David had his Jonathan, Christ his John. 47 Yet be not surety, if thou be a father. Love is a personal debt. I cannot give My children's right, nor ...
... blood must pay down all his fear: But love is lost; the way of friendship's gone, Though David had his Jonathan, Christ his John. 47 Yet be not surety, if thou be a father. Love is a personal debt. I cannot give My children's right, nor ...
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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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