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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... ( 3 ) The Star Sunday Avarice Anagram To All Angels and Saints Employment ( 2 ) Denial Christmas Ungratefulness Sighs and Groans The World Colossians 3 : 3 Vanity ( 1 ) Lent Virtue The Pearl . Matthew 13:45 Affliction ( 4.
... ( 3 ) The Star Sunday Avarice Anagram To All Angels and Saints Employment ( 2 ) Denial Christmas Ungratefulness Sighs and Groans The World Colossians 3 : 3 Vanity ( 1 ) Lent Virtue The Pearl . Matthew 13:45 Affliction ( 4.
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George Herbert. Lent Virtue The Pearl . Matthew 13:45 Affliction ( 4 ) Man Antiphon ( 2 ) Unkindness Life Submission Justice ( 1 ) Charms and Knots Affliction ( 5 ) Mortification Decay Misery Jordan ( 2 ) Prayer ( 2 ) Obedience ...
George Herbert. Lent Virtue The Pearl . Matthew 13:45 Affliction ( 4 ) Man Antiphon ( 2 ) Unkindness Life Submission Justice ( 1 ) Charms and Knots Affliction ( 5 ) Mortification Decay Misery Jordan ( 2 ) Prayer ( 2 ) Obedience ...
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... virtues . Herbert the secular rhetorician at Cambridge as Public Orator has become the religious rhetorician who uses subtle rhetorical tactics beyond paronomasia . For all his integrity , Herbert does practise tricks against our ...
... virtues . Herbert the secular rhetorician at Cambridge as Public Orator has become the religious rhetorician who uses subtle rhetorical tactics beyond paronomasia . For all his integrity , Herbert does practise tricks against our ...
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... Virtues sitting hand in hand ' , together with a beast fable with its personifications and exemplary animals . He even writes some eighteen sonnets , many of them quite Shakespearean in structure and rhyme scheme . Some of the most ...
... Virtues sitting hand in hand ' , together with a beast fable with its personifications and exemplary animals . He even writes some eighteen sonnets , many of them quite Shakespearean in structure and rhyme scheme . Some of the most ...
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... virtue as the prudent Greek philosopher Epicurus ( 342-270 BC ) wishes , believing that gentle motion is best . The low energy and circumscribed vocation , together with a risk - averse attitude make him so unlike his charismatically ...
... virtue as the prudent Greek philosopher Epicurus ( 342-270 BC ) wishes , believing that gentle motion is best . The low energy and circumscribed vocation , together with a risk - averse attitude make him so unlike his charismatically ...
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