Author: George Herbert
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 014196586X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 385
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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: Everyman's Library
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 600
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This is a collection of Herbert's poems with notes, chronology and introduction by the distinguished scholar, Ann Pasternak Slater. This volume is ideal for students.
Author: John Donne
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141916036
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 688
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No poet has been more wilfully contradictory than John Donne, whose works forge unforgettable connections between extremes of passion and mental energy. From satire to tender elegy, from sacred devotion to lust, he conveys an astonishing range of emotions and poetic moods. Constant in his work, however, is an intensity of feeling and expression and complexity of argument that is as evident in religious meditations such as 'Good Friday 1613. Riding Westward' as it is in secular love poems such as 'The Sun Rising' or 'The Flea'. 'The intricacy and subtlety of his imagination are the length and depth of the furrow made by his passion,' wrote Yeats, pinpointing the unique genius of a poet who combined ardour and intellect in equal measure.
Author: Jay Stevenson
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781592576562
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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Author: George Herbert
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: SCHOOL SPECIALTY CHILDRENS
Publisher: American Education Publishing
ISBN: 9780769643311
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Students find instruction and practice in English, language arts, grammar, and punctuation. Designed by leading education experts, these guides offer excercises on vowels, phonics, and the parts necessary to create effective sentences. Illustrations.
Author: George Herbert
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Author: Eustace G. Thorpe
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers
ISBN: 9780435018986
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Author: Christopher Cannon
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191533750
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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The centuries just after the Norman Conquest are the forgotten period of English literary history. In fact, the years 1066-1300 witnessed an unparalleled ingenuity in the creation of written forms, for this was a time when almost every writer was unaware of the existence of other English writing. In a series of detailed readings of the more important early Middle English works, Cannon shows how the many and varied texts of the period laid the foundations for the project of English literature. This richness is for the first time given credit in these readings by means of an innovative theory of literary form that accepts every written shape as itself a unique contribution to the history of ideas. This theory also suggests that the impoverished understanding of literature we now commonly employ is itself a legacy of this early period, an attribute of the single form we have learned to call 'romance'. A number of reading methods have lately taught us to be more generous in our understandings of what literature might be, but this book shows us that the very variety we now strive to embrace anew actually formed the grounds of English literature-a richness we only lost when we forgot how to recognize it.
Author: Malcolm Andrew
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520078713
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 490
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"Finch's translations will add much to the pleasure and value of teaching and learning late medieval English history."—Robert Brentano, author of Two Churches "Casey Finch has found an idiom in which these poems can speak Modern English, and in doing so can convey the most elusive and complex effects of the originals. . . . He has conveyed the vitality of these poems in a verse that is as assured, gracious, blunt, urgent, plangent, rich, and perpetually surprising as that of the unknown poet or poets who made them. These brilliant poems have at last found a craftsman who understands the secrets of their intricate luminosity, a faithful steward of a distinctive verbal treasure of the language. In this translation these poems shine as brightly and clearly as they did when newly made, pearls without peer in English."—Anne Middleton, University of California, Berkeley
