The Poetry Of George Herbert

Author : A Kingsley Porter University Professor Helen Vendler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780674864641
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poetry of George Herbert written by A Kingsley Porter University Professor Helen Vendler and published by . This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jim Scott Orrick
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1610972864
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Year with George Herbert written by Jim Scott Orrick and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-05-12 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1633, when The Temple was first published, many notable Christians have testified of their love for George Herbert's poetry. The great nineteenth-century preacher C. H. Spurgeon and his wife would sometimes read Herbert's poetry together on Sunday evenings. Richard Baxter wrote, Herbert speaks to God like one that really believeth a God, and whose business in the world is most with God. C. S. Lewis described Herbert as a man who seemed to me to excel all the authors I had ever read in conveying the very quality of life as we actually live it from moment to moment . . . Regrettably, as the years have passed, Herbert's poetry has been increasingly neglected outside the academy. Many who would love Herbert have never even heard of him. Others feel intimidated by his poetry, fearing that they do not have the education necessary to understand what Herbert has written. In this book, Jimmy Scott Orrick has made the poetry of George Herbert accessible even to those who have had no experience reading poetry. In addition to providing thorough notes for each poem, Orrick also gives basic pointers about how to read poetry. Why not follow C. H. Spurgeon's example and have a page or two of good George Herbert on your Sunday evenings? Those who follow this prescription will be deeply enriched for having spent A Year with George Herbert.

Author : John Drury
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022613458X
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music at Midnight written by John Drury and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “powerfully absorbing” biography of 17th century Welsh poet George Herbert brings essential personal and social context to his immortal poetry (Financial Times). Though he never published any of his English poems during his lifetime, George Herbert has been celebrated for centuries as one of the greatest religious poets in the language. In this richly perceptive biography, author and theologian John Drury integrates Herbert’s poems fully into his life, enriching our understanding of both the poet’s mind and his work. As Drury writes in his preface, Herbert lived “a quiet life with a crisis in the middle of it.” Beginning with his early academic success, Drury chronicles the life of a man who abandons the path to a career at court and chooses to devote himself to the restoration of a church in Huntingdonshire and lives out his life as a country parson. Because Herbert’s work was only published posthumously, it has always been difficult to know when or in what context he wrote his poems. But Drury skillfully places readings of the poems into his narrative, allowing us to appreciate not only Herbert’s frame of mind while writing, but also the society that produced it. He reveals the occasions of sorrow, happiness, regret, and hope that Herbert captured in his poetry and that led T. S. Eliot to write, “What we can confidently believe is that every poem . . . is true to the poet’s experience.” “It is hard to imagine a better book for anyone, general reader or seventeenth-century aficionado or teacher or student, newly embarking on Herbert.”—The Guardian, UK

Author : George Herbert
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 014196586X
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete English Poems written by George Herbert and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2004-10-07 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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 : George Herbert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of George Herbert ... written by George Herbert and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Herbert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poems of George Herbert written by George Herbert and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Herbert
Publisher : Everyman's Library
ISBN 13 : 1400043298
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Herbert: Poems written by George Herbert and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2004-11-02 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Herbert (1593-1633) has come to be one of the most admired of the metaphysical poets. Though he is a profoundly religious poet, even secular readers respond to his quiet intensity and exuberant inventiveness, which are amply showcased in this selection. Herbert experimented brilliantly with a remarkable variety of forms, from hymns and sonnets to pattern poems, the shapes of which reveal their subjects. Such technical agility never seems ostentatious, however, for precision of language and expression of genuine feeling were the primary concerns of this poet, who admonished his readers to “dare to be true.” An Anglican priest who took his calling with deep seriousness, he brought to his work a religious reverence richly allied with a playful wit and with literary and musical gifts of the highest order. His best-loved poems, from “The Collar” and “Jordan” to “The Altar” and “Easter Wings,” achieve a perfection of form and feeling, a rare luminosity, and a timeless metaphysical grandeur.

Author : George Herbert
Publisher : Ardent Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Latin Poetry of George Herbert written by George Herbert and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1965 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A bilingual edition. George Herbert is well-know as one of the great religious "metaphysical" poets of the seventeenth century. Very little is known about Herbert's Latin verse which shows unexpected sides of the man and the poet." --

Author : George Herbert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521868211
Total Pages : 47 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The English Poems of George Herbert written by George Herbert and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-04 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive scholarly edition of Herbert's complete English poems, accompanied by extensive explanatory and textual apparatus, a glossary of key words and an index of biblical quotations. The text is meticulously annotated with historical, literary and biblical information, as well as modern critical contexts.