George Herbert's Lyrics

George Herbert's Lyrics
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Publisher : JHU Press
Total Pages : 245
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ISBN-10 : 9781421433837
ISBN-13 : 1421433834
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Book Synopsis George Herbert's Lyrics by : Arnold Stein

Download or read book George Herbert's Lyrics written by Arnold Stein and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1968. The main purpose of this book is to demonstrate that George Herbert is one of the great masters of lyric poetry. Stein discusses Herbert's diction, imagery, syntax, and rhythm in light of his organization of the imaginative materials of time and self-consciousness and in light of his development of a rhetoric through which he could master the intimacies of personal failure and (what is far more difficult) express in language convincingly sincere states of positive religious achievement.

Love Known

Love Known
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Total Pages : 277
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ISBN-10 : 0226777170
ISBN-13 : 9780226777177
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Book Synopsis Love Known by : Richard Strier

Download or read book Love Known written by Richard Strier and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book changes the way we read one of the greatest masters of the lyric poem in English. Unlike much recent scholarship on George Herbert, Love Known demonstrates the inseparability of Herbert's theology and poetry. Richard Strier argues persuasively for a strongly Protestant Herbert who shared Luther's sense of the primacy of the doctrine of justification by faith. Cutting across traditional lines, the book is the first sustained study of the theological basis of Herbert's poetry, pointing out connections between Herbert and the Protestant "left" of his own and the following era. In each chapter, Strier closely analyzes a coherent group of Herbert's lyrics to reveal the theological motives of their movements and design. When placed in a theological context, the poems come into focus in a remarkable way: many hitherto puzzling or unnoticed details are clarified, some neglected poems emerge into prominence, and familiar poems like "Love" (III) and "The Collar" take on new cogency. The chapters build on one another , moving from the darker implications of "faith alone," the insistence on the pervasiveness of sin and pride, to the comforting implications of the doctrine, the assertion of the possibility of freedom from anxiety, and the defense of individual experience. Love Known thus offers not only a new historical approach to Herbert, but a new appreciation of the relationship between the psychological realism and human appeal of the lyrics and their theological core.

Music for a King

Music for a King
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Total Pages : 252
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ISBN-10 : OCLC:1184605007
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Book Synopsis Music for a King by : Coburn Freer

Download or read book Music for a King written by Coburn Freer and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Favorite Poems

Favorite Poems
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Total Pages : 314
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ISBN-10 : HARVARD:HNZZ3U
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Book Synopsis Favorite Poems by : William Collins

Download or read book Favorite Poems written by William Collins and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

George Herbert's Pastoral

George Herbert's Pastoral
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Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Total Pages : 313
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ISBN-10 : 9780874130225
ISBN-13 : 0874130220
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Book Synopsis George Herbert's Pastoral by : Christopher Hodgkins

Download or read book George Herbert's Pastoral written by Christopher Hodgkins and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As poet and as country parson, George Herbert engaged the pastoral in all of its varied senses. In October of 2007, many of the world's leading Herbert scholars met at Sarum College in Salisbury, England to locate Herbert's pastoral life and writings more particularly in early Stuart Wiltshire. They explored the relations between the pastoral locale of Herbert's last years (1630-1633) in nearby Bemerton and the themes, images, and tenor of his writing. How did the specific country place, time, and people shape the life and work of this especially lyrical country priest? The fourteen essays in this collection address Herbert's pastoral poetry and practice, cast new light on his actual relations with specific local personalities and places, make fresh connections to the inward biblical and liturgical spaces of his work, consider his outward links to garden and pasture, and discover fictional and theological reverberations beyond Herbert's local, pastoral world. Christopher Hodgkins is Professor of English at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro.

Temple

Temple
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Total Pages : 464
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ISBN-10 : UCAL:B4823543
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Book Synopsis Temple by : George Herbert

Download or read book Temple written by George Herbert and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Invisible Listeners

Invisible Listeners
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 110
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ISBN-10 : 9781400826711
ISBN-13 : 1400826713
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Book Synopsis Invisible Listeners by : Helen Vendler

Download or read book Invisible Listeners written by Helen Vendler and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-09 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a poet addresses a living person--whether friend or enemy, lover or sister--we recognize the expression of intimacy. But what impels poets to leap across time and space to speak to invisible listeners, seeking an ideal intimacy--George Herbert with God, Walt Whitman with a reader in the future, John Ashbery with the Renaissance painter Francesco Parmigianino? In Invisible Listeners, Helen Vendler argues that such poets must invent the language that will enact, on the page, an intimacy they lack in life. Through brilliantly insightful and gracefully written readings of these three great poets over three different centuries, Vendler maps out their relationships with their chosen listeners. For his part, Herbert revises the usual "vertical" address to God in favor of a "horizontal" one-addressing God as a friend. Whitman hovers in a sometimes erotic, sometimes quasi-religious language in conceiving the democratic camerado, who will, following Whitman's example, find his true self. And yet the camerado will be replaced, in Whitman's verse, by the ultimate invisible listener, Death. Ashbery, seeking a fellow artist who believes that art always distorts what it represents, finds he must travel to the remote past. In tones both tender and skeptical he addresses Parmigianino, whose extraordinary self-portrait in a convex mirror furnishes the poet with both a theory and a precedent for his own inventions. By creating the forms and speech of ideal intimacy, these poets set forth the possibility of a more complete and satisfactory human interchange--an ethics of relation that is uncoerced, understanding, and free.