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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... Grow to a Compleat Pastorall " : Re - Reading The Country Parson ' , English Studies in Canada 18 ( 1992 ) Edgecombe , Rodney , ' Sweetnesse Readie Penn'd ' : Imagery , Syntax and Metrics in the Poetry of George Herbert , Salzburg ...
... Grow to a Compleat Pastorall " : Re - Reading The Country Parson ' , English Studies in Canada 18 ( 1992 ) Edgecombe , Rodney , ' Sweetnesse Readie Penn'd ' : Imagery , Syntax and Metrics in the Poetry of George Herbert , Salzburg ...
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... grows bold . 8 If reason move not gallants , quit the room , ( All in a shipwrack shift their several way ) 45 Let not a common ruin thee entomb : Be not a beast in courtesy ; but stay , Stay at the third cup , or forgo the place . Wine ...
... grows bold . 8 If reason move not gallants , quit the room , ( All in a shipwrack shift their several way ) 45 Let not a common ruin thee entomb : Be not a beast in courtesy ; but stay , Stay at the third cup , or forgo the place . Wine ...
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... grows two thereby . 14 Fly idleness , which yet thou canst not fly By dressing , mistressing , and compliment . If those take up thy day , the sun will cry Against thee : for his light was only lent . God gave thy soul brave wings ; put ...
... grows two thereby . 14 Fly idleness , which yet thou canst not fly By dressing , mistressing , and compliment . If those take up thy day , the sun will cry Against thee : for his light was only lent . God gave thy soul brave wings ; put ...
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... grows in court; news in the city. Get a good stock of these, then draw the card That suits him best, of whom thy speech is heard. 50 Entice all neatly to what they know best; For so thou dost thyself and him a pleasure: (But a proud ...
... grows in court; news in the city. Get a good stock of these, then draw the card That suits him best, of whom thy speech is heard. 50 Entice all neatly to what they know best; For so thou dost thyself and him a pleasure: (But a proud ...
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FURTHER READING | |
EasterWings | |
Sin | |
Modest and moderate joys are passing brave lines 24 where the contrast | |
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