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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... Prayer ( 2 ) Obedience Conscience Sion Home The British Church The Quip Vanity ( 2 ) The Dawning Jesu Business Dialogue Dullness Love - Joy Providence Hope Sin's Round Time Gratefulness Peace Confession Giddiness The Bunch of Grapes ...
... Prayer ( 2 ) Obedience Conscience Sion Home The British Church The Quip Vanity ( 2 ) The Dawning Jesu Business Dialogue Dullness Love - Joy Providence Hope Sin's Round Time Gratefulness Peace Confession Giddiness The Bunch of Grapes ...
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... Prayer ( 1 ) ' , an absence that speaks loudly of the impossibility of limiting the mystery of one - sided prayer by an exhaustive definition ; as in the imperfect or broken rhyme of ' Denial ' where the non - rhyming ' disorder ' of ...
... Prayer ( 1 ) ' , an absence that speaks loudly of the impossibility of limiting the mystery of one - sided prayer by an exhaustive definition ; as in the imperfect or broken rhyme of ' Denial ' where the non - rhyming ' disorder ' of ...
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... Prayer and Power : George Herbert and Renaissance Courtship , University of Chicago Press , 1991 Bodies and Selves in Early Modern England : Physiology and Inwardness in Spenser , Shakespeare , Herbert , and Milton , Cambridge ...
... Prayer and Power : George Herbert and Renaissance Courtship , University of Chicago Press , 1991 Bodies and Selves in Early Modern England : Physiology and Inwardness in Spenser , Shakespeare , Herbert , and Milton , Cambridge ...
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... . Scripture is cited from the Authorised Version of 1611 , the King James Bible , except for passages from the Psalms , which are from the Book of Common Prayer , the text Herbert himself used . A NOTE ON METRE The reader will see and hear.
... . Scripture is cited from the Authorised Version of 1611 , the King James Bible , except for passages from the Psalms , which are from the Book of Common Prayer , the text Herbert himself used . A NOTE ON METRE The reader will see and hear.
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... Prayer ( 2 ) ' , line 2 , ' The British Church ' , line 28 , ' Mary Magdalene ' , line 1 , and ' L'Envoy ' , lines 1 and 2 ) . Non - repeated and perhaps not immediately perceived accentuated final ' -ed ' examples occur as ' Usèd ' and ...
... Prayer ( 2 ) ' , line 2 , ' The British Church ' , line 28 , ' Mary Magdalene ' , line 1 , and ' L'Envoy ' , lines 1 and 2 ) . Non - repeated and perhaps not immediately perceived accentuated final ' -ed ' examples occur as ' Usèd ' and ...
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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