George Herbert And The Seventeenth Century Religious Poets

Author : George Herbert
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780393092547
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book George Herbert and the Seventeenth-century Religious Poets written by George Herbert and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1978 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the major works of five poets--George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, Andrew Marvell, Henry Vaughan, and Thomas Traherne. While most of the selections are religious poetry, the important secular verse of Marvell and Crashaw is also included. Eighty poems by Herbert have been selected form The Temple, and two early poems from Issak Walton's Lives are also included.

Author : Mario A. Di Cesare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Goerge Herbert and the Seventeenth Century Religious Poets written by Mario A. Di Cesare and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph Summers
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725240211
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book George Herbert written by Joseph Summers and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Herbert has for centuries been admired by the religious for his piety and by lovers of poetry for his language and his wit. In the present volume, Professor Summers seeks to abolish this dualism of approach: he is concerned throughout to demonstrate Herbert’s religion as it is expressed in his poems, and to interpret the poems in the light of his religion, for they are a “picture” of meticulously observed spiritual experience. He gives us a scholarly, lucid, and integrated study of a much-loved poet, who was at once a good man, a profound Christian thinker, and a most daring experimentalist in the craft of verse. Professor Summers charts the many currents and cross-currents of early seventeenth century religious thought that affected Herbert, traces the stages of the poet’s life, and then proceeds to a thorough examination of the form and content of his work. There are interesting chapters on his metrical “counterpoint,” his dramatic-colloquial style, and the influence of music upon his poetry. This is not only an authoritative study of the poet himself but a notable contribution to the problem, so keenly discussed today, of religious belief in relation to poetry.

Author : Gary Kuchar
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319440454
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book George Herbert and the Mystery of the Word written by Gary Kuchar and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-01-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a historically and critically nuanced study of George Herbert's biblical poetics. Situating Herbert's work in the context of shifting ideas of biblical mystery, Gary Kuchar shows how Herbert negotiated two competing impulses within post-reformation thought—two contrary aspects of reformation spirituality as he inherited it: the impulse to certainty, assurance, and security and the impulse to mystery, wonder, and wise ignorance. Through subtle and richly contextualized readings, Kuchar places Herbert within a trans-historical tradition of biblical interpretation while also locating him firmly within the context of the early Stuart church. The result is a wide ranging book that is sure to be of interest to students and scholars across several different fields, including seventeenth-century studies, poetry and the bible, and literature and theology.

Author : R. V. Young
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9780859915694
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doctrine and Devotion in Seventeenth-century Poetry written by R. V. Young and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2000 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English devotional poets of 17c set in a wider European and Catholic context. This book offers a comprehensive account of the literary and theological background to English devotional poetry of the seventeenth century, concentrating on four major poets, Donne, Herbert, Vaughan and Crashaw. It challenges both Protestant poetics and postmodernism, the prevailing critical approaches to Renaissance literature: by reading the poetry in the light of continental Catholic devotional literature and theology, the author demonstrates that religious poetry in seventeenth-century England was not rigidly or exclusively Protestant in its doctrinal and liturgical orientation. He argues that poetic genres and devices that have been ascribed to strict Reformation influence are equally prominent in the Catholic poetry of Spain and France; he also shows that postmodernist anxiety about subjective identity and the capacity of language for signification is in fact a concern of such landmark Christian thinkers as Augustine and Aquinas, and appears in devotional poetry in the Christian tradition. Professor R.V. YOUNGteaches at North Carolina State University.

Author : Dr Frances Cruickshank
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409476154
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Verse and Poetics in George Herbert and John Donne written by Dr Frances Cruickshank and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-04-28 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovative and highly readable, this study traces George Herbert's and John Donne's development of a distinct poetics through close readings of their poems, references to their letters, sermons, and prose treatises, and to other contemporary poets and theorists. In demonstrating a relationship between poetics and religious consciousness in Donne's and Herbert's verse, Frances Cruickshank explores their attitudes to the cultural, theological, and aesthetic enterprise of writing and reading verse. Cruickshank shows that Donne and Herbert regarded poetry as a mode not determined by its social and political contexts, but as operating in and on them with its own distinct set of aesthetic and intellectual values, and that ultimately, verse mattered as a privileged mode of religious discourse. This book is an important contribution to the ongoing scholarly dialogue about the nature of literary and cultural study of early modern England, and about the relationship between the writer and the world. Cruickshank confirms Donne's reputation as a fascinating and brilliant poetic figure while simultaneously rousing interest in Herbert by noting his unique merging of rusticity and urbanity and tranquility and uncertainty, allowing the reader to enter into these poets' imaginative worlds and to understand the literary genre they embraced and then transformed.

Author : George Herbert
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781019968277
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poems written by George Herbert and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of religious and devotional poetry by the seventeenth-century poet George Herbert. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Melanie W.
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3656832145
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religious Poetry. The Speaker's Relation to God in Donne's "Batter my Heart" and Herbert's "The Collar" written by Melanie W. and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,3, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald, language: English, abstract: After the great poetry in the 13th century, which was highly influenced by the Franciscan religion, the English religious lyric found a new age in the 17th century. Two of the main poets of this time, also called “metaphysical poets”, are John Donne and George Herbert, whose poems will be analyzed in this term paper. Reading “Batter my Heart” and “The Collar” raises not only the question of religiosity but also of the speaker’s relation to God. Apart from the religious content, there are also stylistic devices, which are crucial for the time of metaphysical poetry. But, before it comes to an analysis, there will be given a short overview about the historical background, the importance of religion for the poets at that time and their impact on poetry to understand the meaning of their poems in a better way. Finally, there will be made a comparison of the two poems concerning the way they deal with religiosity and how they implement their idea of the speaker’s relation to God.

Author : George Herbert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.HM/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Temple written by George Herbert and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frances Cruickshank
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317002431
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Verse and Poetics in George Herbert and John Donne written by Frances Cruickshank and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovative and highly readable, this study traces George Herbert's and John Donne's development of a distinct poetics through close readings of their poems, references to their letters, sermons, and prose treatises, and to other contemporary poets and theorists. In demonstrating a relationship between poetics and religious consciousness in Donne's and Herbert's verse, Frances Cruickshank explores their attitudes to the cultural, theological, and aesthetic enterprise of writing and reading verse. Cruickshank shows that Donne and Herbert regarded poetry as a mode not determined by its social and political contexts, but as operating in and on them with its own distinct set of aesthetic and intellectual values, and that ultimately, verse mattered as a privileged mode of religious discourse. This book is an important contribution to the ongoing scholarly dialogue about the nature of literary and cultural study of early modern England, and about the relationship between the writer and the world. Cruickshank confirms Donne's reputation as a fascinating and brilliant poetic figure while simultaneously rousing interest in Herbert by noting his unique merging of rusticity and urbanity and tranquility and uncertainty, allowing the reader to enter into these poets' imaginative worlds and to understand the literary genre they embraced and then transformed.