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Poets' Meeting
George Herbert (1593-1633) and R.S. Thomas (1913-2000), each a major English poet and an Anglican priest, lived in very different times, one before the Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment, and industrialization, and one following. Yet the two men and their poetry bear striking resemblances: Both loved nature and music, both were pacifists, and both struggled with the claims of faith, the nature of the spiritual life, and the recurrent silences of God. This book demonstrates that when their lives and poems are studied side by side, each man enhances our understanding of the other. The first essay deals with their sense of calling as priests and poets. The work then explores topics that relate to their roles as parish priests: ministry, the Bible, the Eucharist, and prayer. Several essays follow dealing with broader questions of the human condition: faith, sin, love, reason and science, and nature. The work concludes by considering their poems about Christmas, Good Friday, and Easter.
Writing the Flesh
Writing the Flesh: The Herbert Family Dialogue demonstrates that George Herbert's lyric acheivement was not an isolated phenomenon, but the product of a family's literary conversation and manuscript exchange. The Herberts, in the words of a contemporary, write the flesh, as they wrote to and about one other. Derived from an exhaustive reading of Herbert family manuscripts, this study interprets a series of texts that have never been studied together before. In addition to George Herbert's works, these texts include: Lord Herbert's philosophical treatises and poems; Magdalen Herbert Danvers's letters and Kitchin Booke; Thomas Herbert's The Storme . . . from Plymouth; Sir Henry Herbert's newsletters and literary works; and the papers of Sir John Danvers, the Ferrars, and other members of the Virginia Company. A keen synthesis of social history and literary criticism, Writing the Flesh presents both a historical examination of the structure of an early modern family and a new domestic understanding of George Herbert's poetry.
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