Materiality and Devotion in the Poetry of George Herbert

Materiality and Devotion in the Poetry of George Herbert
Author: Francesca Cioni
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2024-01-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0198874405

This book uses textual and material evidence -- in poetry, prayers, physiologies, sermons, church buildings and monuments, manuscript diaries and notebooks -- to explore how material things held spiritual meaning in George Herbert's poetry, and to reflect on scholarly approaches to matter and form in devotional poetry.