The Autobiography of Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury
Author : Edward Herbert Baron Herbert of Cherbury
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Page : 490 pages
File Size : 11,63 MB
Release : 1886
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Author : Edward Herbert Baron Herbert of Cherbury
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Page : 490 pages
File Size : 11,63 MB
Release : 1886
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Author : Edward Herbert Herbert of Cherbury
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Page : 394 pages
File Size : 48,19 MB
Release : 1826
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Author : Edward Herbert Baron Herbert of Cherbury
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Page : 396 pages
File Size : 11,1 MB
Release : 1826
Category : Ambassadors
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Author : Edward Herbert (1st baron.)
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Page : 68 pages
File Size : 34,48 MB
Release : 1847
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Author : Edward Herbert Baron Herbert of Cherbury
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Page : 278 pages
File Size : 26,84 MB
Release : 1771
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Author : Edward Herbert Baron Herbert of Cherbury
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Page : 390 pages
File Size : 50,92 MB
Release : 1826
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Author : Edward Herbert Baron Herbert of Cherbury
Publisher : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 43,72 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Religion
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Author : Edward Herbert Baron Herbert of Cherbury
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Page : 312 pages
File Size : 36,7 MB
Release : 1823
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Author : Greg Miller
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 26,30 MB
Release : 2022-08-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1526164078
George Herbert (1593-1633), the celebrated devotional poet, and his brother Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1583-1648), often described as the father of English deism, are rarely considered together. This collection explores connections between the full range of the brothers’ writings and activities, despite the apparent differences both in what they wrote and in how they lived their lives. More specifically, the volume demonstrates that despite these differences, each conceived of their extended republic of letters as militating against a violent and exclusive catholicity; theirs was a communion in which contention (or disputation) served to develop more dynamic forms of comprehensiveness. The literary, philosophical and musical production of the Herbert brothers appears here in its full European context, connected as they were with the Sidney clan and its investment in international Protestantism. The disciplinary boundaries between poetry, philosophy, politics and theology in modern universities are a stark contrast to the deep interconnectedness of these pursuits in the seventeenth century. Crossing disciplinary and territorial borders, contributors discuss a variety of texts and media, including poetry, musical practices, autobiography, letters, council literature, orations, philosophy, history and nascent religious anthropology, all serving as agents of the circulation and construction of transregionally inspired and collective responses to human conflict and violence. We see as never before the profound connections, face-to-face as well as textual, linking early modern British literary culture with the continent.
Author : John Drury
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 40,36 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