George Herbert: 100 Poems
Title | George Herbert: 100 Poems PDF eBook |
Author | George Herbert |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 185 |
Release | 2016-05-19 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1316592197 |
George Herbert (1593–1633) is widely regarded as the greatest devotional poet in the English language. His profound influence can be seen in the lasting popularity of his verse. This selection of one hundred lyric poems by Herbert is designed for readers to enjoy the beauty, spirituality, accessibility and humanity of his best verse. Each poem uses the authoritative text from the acclaimed Cambridge edition of Herbert's poems, presenting them in their original spelling in a clear and elegant format. The selection includes such well-loved lyric verses as 'Love bade me welcome', 'Let all the world in ev'ry corner sing', 'I struck the board and cry'd, No more' and 'Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright'. A preface by Helen Wilcox, editor of the Cambridge edition, celebrates the key features of Herbert's poetry for a new generation of readers.
A Year with George Herbert
Title | A Year with George Herbert PDF eBook |
Author | Jim Scott Orrick |
Publisher | Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | 175 |
Release | 2011-05-12 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1610972864 |
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.
The Temple
Title | The Temple PDF eBook |
Author | George Herbert |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 244 |
Release | 1883 |
Genre | Christian poetry, English |
ISBN |
Music at Midnight
Title | Music at Midnight PDF eBook |
Author | John Drury |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | 433 |
Release | 2014-04-01 |
Genre | 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
The Complete English Poems
Title | The Complete English Poems PDF eBook |
Author | George Herbert |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Total Pages | 385 |
Release | 2004-10-07 |
Genre | 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.
The Poetry of George Herbert
Title | The Poetry of George Herbert PDF eBook |
Author | A Kingsley Porter University Professor Helen Vendler |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 316 |
Release | 2013-10-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780674864641 |
George Herbert and the Seventeenth-century Religious Poets
Title | George Herbert and the Seventeenth-century Religious Poets PDF eBook |
Author | George Herbert |
Publisher | W W Norton & Company Incorporated |
Total Pages | 401 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780393092547 |
This volume presents the major works of five poets--George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, Andrew Marvell, Henry Vaughan, and Thomas Traherne. While most of the selections are religious poetry, the important secular verse of Marvell and Crashaw is also included. Eighty poems by Herbert have been selected form The Temple, and two early poems from Issak Walton's Lives are also included.