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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... thought ' , ' Assurance ' ) . These moments of doubt make Herbert easier to appreciate by modern readers with our own uncertainties . In terms of religion , Herbert is close to centre of that Protestant spectrum . However much ...
... thought ' , ' Assurance ' ) . These moments of doubt make Herbert easier to appreciate by modern readers with our own uncertainties . In terms of religion , Herbert is close to centre of that Protestant spectrum . However much ...
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... thought to be a copy of the ' little book ' that Herbert on his deathbed had conveyed to Nicholas Ferrar , and MS Jones B 62 in Dr Williams's Library , London ( MSW ) , an early version of sixty - nine of the one hundred and sixty ...
... thought to be a copy of the ' little book ' that Herbert on his deathbed had conveyed to Nicholas Ferrar , and MS Jones B 62 in Dr Williams's Library , London ( MSW ) , an early version of sixty - nine of the one hundred and sixty ...
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... thought it not unfit to make the common Reader privy to some few particularities of condition and disposition of the Person . Being nobly born , and as eminently endued with gifts of the mind , and having by industry and happy education ...
... thought it not unfit to make the common Reader privy to some few particularities of condition and disposition of the Person . Being nobly born , and as eminently endued with gifts of the mind , and having by industry and happy education ...
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... thoughts have there no part: Bring not thy plough, thy plots, thy pleasures thither. Christ purged his temple; so must thou thy heart. All worldly thoughts are but thieves met together To cozen thee. Look to thy actions well: For ...
... thoughts have there no part: Bring not thy plough, thy plots, thy pleasures thither. Christ purged his temple; so must thou thy heart. All worldly thoughts are but thieves met together To cozen thee. Look to thy actions well: For ...
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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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