Verse And Poetics In George Herbert And John Donne
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Author | : Frances Cruickshank |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2016-02-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317002431 |
Innovative and highly readable, this study traces George Herbert's and John Donne's development of a distinct poetics through close readings of their poems, references to their letters, sermons, and prose treatises, and to other contemporary poets and theorists. In demonstrating a relationship between poetics and religious consciousness in Donne's and Herbert's verse, Frances Cruickshank explores their attitudes to the cultural, theological, and aesthetic enterprise of writing and reading verse. Cruickshank shows that Donne and Herbert regarded poetry as a mode not determined by its social and political contexts, but as operating in and on them with its own distinct set of aesthetic and intellectual values, and that ultimately, verse mattered as a privileged mode of religious discourse. This book is an important contribution to the ongoing scholarly dialogue about the nature of literary and cultural study of early modern England, and about the relationship between the writer and the world. Cruickshank confirms Donne's reputation as a fascinating and brilliant poetic figure while simultaneously rousing interest in Herbert by noting his unique merging of rusticity and urbanity and tranquility and uncertainty, allowing the reader to enter into these poets' imaginative worlds and to understand the literary genre they embraced and then transformed.
Author | : Russell M. Hillier |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2021-10-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1644532263 |
This book brings together ten essays on John Donne and George Herbert composed by an international group of scholars. The volume represents the first collection of its kind to draw close connections between these two distinguished early modern poet-thinkers. The contributors illuminate a variety of topics and fields while suggestion new directions that future study of Donne and Herbert might take.
Author | : George Herbert |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 1880 |
Genre | : Literature |
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Author | : Norman Dexter Hinton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1954 |
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Author | : George Herbert |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 534 |
Release | : 1874 |
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Author | : Izaak Walton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Poets, English |
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Author | : Ceri Sullivan |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2008-09-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 019954784X |
In the first book for over a decade to deal with the issue of conscience in metaphysical poetry, Ceri Sullivan draws on theology, poetics, and rhetoric in detailed readings of the works of Donne, Herbert, and Vaughan. She shows that these poets see the conscience as part theirs, part God's, and respond uncomfortably to failures in its workings.
Author | : Barbara Marie Peyser Duniway |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1953 |
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Author | : Tessie Prakas |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2022-07-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0192671332 |
Poetic Priesthood reads seventeenth-century devotional verse as staging a surprising competition between poetry and the established church. The work of John Donne, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, John Milton, and Thomas Traherne suggests that the demands of faith are better understood by poets than by priests—even while four of these authors were also ordained. While recent scholarship has tended to emphasize the shaping influence of the liturgy on the poetry of this period, this book argues that verse instead presents readers with a mode of articulating piety that relies on formal experimentation, and that varies from the forms of the church rather than straightforwardly reproducing them. In crafting this poetic aid to devotion, these authors practiced an alternative and even more ample form of ministry than in their ecclesiastical activities. In the wake of the Reformation, the liturgy of the English church centered on rituals of communal prayer and praise, but the poetry considered in this study suggests that such rituals in fact risk distracting worshippers from the pleasures and challenges of navigating an individual relationship with God. Yet these poets do not make this suggestion by rejecting communal rituals outright. Their verse invokes ecclesiastical practice as a basis for formal innovation that suggests how intimacy with the divine might look, feel, and sound, connecting humans with their God more precisely and more individually than the liturgy can. As they shift between explicit comment on the liturgy and more subtle departures from it in the interplay of verse form and denotation, these authors claim the work of priesthood for poetry.
Author | : Harold Bloom |
Publisher | : Facts On File |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Electronic books |
ISBN | : 9781604135909 |
Presents important critical essays from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries on the English poet and several other lesser-known metaphysical poets of his era.