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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... lives in me ' ( line 24 ) , even as ' In him I am well dressed ' ( line 15 ) . Herbert / the speaker is the descendant of both Aaron and the new Aaron , Christ . While Herbert never rises to the generic heights of epic , he contains ...
... lives in me ' ( line 24 ) , even as ' In him I am well dressed ' ( line 15 ) . Herbert / the speaker is the descendant of both Aaron and the new Aaron , Christ . While Herbert never rises to the generic heights of epic , he contains ...
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... Magdalene Herbert . Donne preaches her funeral sermon . 1627 1628 Sir John Danvers remarries . 1628-9 Herbert lives at the home of the Earl of Danby in Wiltshire . 1629 5 March : marries Jane Danvers , a cousin TABLE OF DATES.
... Magdalene Herbert . Donne preaches her funeral sermon . 1627 1628 Sir John Danvers remarries . 1628-9 Herbert lives at the home of the Earl of Danby in Wiltshire . 1629 5 March : marries Jane Danvers , a cousin TABLE OF DATES.
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... Lives , Cornell University Press , 1958 Reiter , Robert E. , ' George Herbert and His Biographers ' , Cithara 9 ( 1970 ) Charles , Amy M. , A Life of George Herbert , Cornell University Press , 1977 CRITICAL STUDIES Asals , Heather ...
... Lives , Cornell University Press , 1958 Reiter , Robert E. , ' George Herbert and His Biographers ' , Cithara 9 ( 1970 ) Charles , Amy M. , A Life of George Herbert , Cornell University Press , 1977 CRITICAL STUDIES Asals , Heather ...
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... Lives : Conformist Confirmations and the Rise of Biography , Oxford University Press , 2001 Martz , Louis L. , The Poetry of Meditation , Yale University Press , 1954 ; second edition , revised , 1962 Miller , Edmund , Drudgerie Divine ...
... Lives : Conformist Confirmations and the Rise of Biography , Oxford University Press , 2001 Martz , Louis L. , The Poetry of Meditation , Yale University Press , 1954 ; second edition , revised , 1962 Miller , Edmund , Drudgerie Divine ...
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... live , Is full as poor as he , that needs but five . 19 The way to make thy son rich , is to fill His mind with rest , before his trunk with riches : For wealth without contentment , climbs a hill To feel those tempests , which fly over ...
... live , Is full as poor as he , that needs but five . 19 The way to make thy son rich , is to fill His mind with rest , before his trunk with riches : For wealth without contentment , climbs a hill To feel those tempests , which fly over ...
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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