The English Works of George Herbert: Bemerton poems

The English Works of George Herbert: Bemerton poems PDF Author: George Herbert
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Languages : en
Pages : 288

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The English Works of George Herbert: Bemerton poems

The English Works of George Herbert: Bemerton poems PDF Author: George Herbert
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Pages : 288

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The Complete English Poems

The Complete English Poems PDF 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.

The English Works of George Herbert: Cambridge poems

The English Works of George Herbert: Cambridge poems PDF Author: George Herbert
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Languages : en
Pages : 262

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The Complete English Works

The Complete English Works PDF Author: George Herbert
Publisher: Everyman's Library
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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.

The English Works of George Herbert

The English Works of George Herbert PDF Author: George Herbert
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Languages : en
Pages : 504

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"George Herbert (3 April 1593 - 1 March 1633) was a Welsh born English poet, orator and Anglican priest. Being born into an artistic and wealthy family, he received a good education which led to his holding prominent positions at Cambridge University and Parliament. As a student at Trinity College, Cambridge, England, George Herbert excelled in languages and music. He went to college with the intention of becoming a priest, but his scholarship attracted the attention of King James I/VI. Herbert served in parliament for two years. After the death of King James and at the urging of a friend, Herbert's interest in ordained ministry was renewed. In 1630, in his late thirties he gave up his secular ambitions and took holy orders in the Church of England, spending the rest of his life as a rector of the little parish of Fugglestone St Peter with Bemerton St Andrew, near Salisbury.

The Temple

The Temple PDF Author: George Herbert
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Category : Christian poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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The Country Parson ; The Temple

The Country Parson ; The Temple PDF Author: George Herbert
Publisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 9780809122981
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 382

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George Herbert (1593-1633) was an Anglican priest, poet and essayist--truly one of the most profound spiritual masters in the English tradition. His spirituality was a synthesis of Evangelical and Catholic piety.

The English Poems of George Herbert

The English Poems of George Herbert PDF Author: George Herbert
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Languages : en
Pages : 476

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Music at Midnight

Music at Midnight PDF Author: John Drury
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022613458X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 433

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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

The Temple

The Temple PDF Author: George Herbert
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Category : Religious poetry, English
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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