The Works of the Rev. George Herbert
Author : George Herbert
Publisher :
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 39,41 MB
Release : 1853
Category : Literature
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Author : George Herbert
Publisher :
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 39,41 MB
Release : 1853
Category : Literature
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Author : George Herbert
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 24,55 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780809122981
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.
Author : George Herbert
Publisher :
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 38,33 MB
Release : 1671
Category : Christian poetry, English
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Author : George Herbert
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 13,21 MB
Release : 2004-10-07
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 014196586X
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 : John Drury
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 46,34 MB
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 022613458X
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 : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 21,68 MB
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385535255
Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Author : George Herbert
Publisher :
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 38,93 MB
Release : 1916
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Author : George Herbert
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,83 MB
Release : 1945
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Author : George Herbert
Publisher :
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 29,87 MB
Release : 1853
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Author : C.A. Patrides
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 42,88 MB
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1136170758
First Published in 1995. The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and little published documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects. The Collected Critical Heritage set will be available as a set of 68 volumes and the series will also be available in mini sets selected by period (in slipcase boxes) and as individual volumes.