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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... tell the sad story of the death of kings, which derives from III, ii. Less ironic is another Shakespearean borrowing which occurs in 'Bitter-Sweet'. This poem, with its opening expression 'Ah my dear', affected Gerard Manley Hopkins in ...
... tell the sad story of the death of kings, which derives from III, ii. Less ironic is another Shakespearean borrowing which occurs in 'Bitter-Sweet'. This poem, with its opening expression 'Ah my dear', affected Gerard Manley Hopkins in ...
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... Telling Sweetness in George Herbert's Poetry', ELR 12 (1982) — Herbert's Prayerful Art, University of Toronto Press, 1989 Singleton, Marion White, God's Courtier: Configuring a Different Grace in George Herbert's 'Temple', Cambridge ...
... Telling Sweetness in George Herbert's Poetry', ELR 12 (1982) — Herbert's Prayerful Art, University of Toronto Press, 1989 Singleton, Marion White, God's Courtier: Configuring a Different Grace in George Herbert's 'Temple', Cambridge ...
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... tell another's jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need: Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin. He pares his apple, that will cleanly feed. Play not away the virtue of that name, Which is thy best stake, when ...
... tell another's jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need: Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin. He pares his apple, that will cleanly feed. Play not away the virtue of that name, Which is thy best stake, when ...
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... tell lies, and those that fear the rod; The stormy working soul spits lies and froth. Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby. 14 Fly idleness, which yet thou canst not fly 80 By dressing ...
... tell lies, and those that fear the rod; The stormy working soul spits lies and froth. Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby. 14 Fly idleness, which yet thou canst not fly 80 By dressing ...
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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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