Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410361845
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
A Study Guide for George Herbert's "Virtue," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
A Study Guide for George Herbert's "Virtue"
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410361845
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
A Study Guide for George Herbert's "Virtue," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410361845
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
A Study Guide for George Herbert's "Virtue," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
The Country Parson ; The Temple
Author: George Herbert
Publisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 9780809122981
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
George Herbert (1593-1633) was an Anglican priest, poet and essayist--truly one of the most profound spiritual masters in the English tradition. His spirituality was a synthesis of Evangelical and Catholic piety.
Publisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 9780809122981
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
George Herbert (1593-1633) was an Anglican priest, poet and essayist--truly one of the most profound spiritual masters in the English tradition. His spirituality was a synthesis of Evangelical and Catholic piety.
Love Three
Author: Aaron Kunin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781940696829
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
A thought-provoking, sustained meditation on sex, love, power, and poetry.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781940696829
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
A thought-provoking, sustained meditation on sex, love, power, and poetry.
Music at Midnight
Author: John Drury
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022613458X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
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
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022613458X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
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
A Study Guide for Robert Herrick's "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time"
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410360873
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
A Study Guide for Robert Herrick's "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410360873
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
A Study Guide for Robert Herrick's "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
The Book of Sand
Author: Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher: Dutton Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Thirteen new stories by the celebrated writer, including two which he considers his greatest achievements to date, artfully blend elements from many literary geares.
Publisher: Dutton Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Thirteen new stories by the celebrated writer, including two which he considers his greatest achievements to date, artfully blend elements from many literary geares.
My Sour-Sweet Days
Author: Mark Oakley
Publisher: SPCK
ISBN: 028108033X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
Mark Oakley reveals George Herbert as a fine companion with whom to examine the journey of the soul. His poems are 'heart-work and heaven-work', embracing love and closeness, anger and despair, reconciliation and hope. There is too an appealing and audacious playfulness about Herbert: he seems to take God on, knowing God will win, confident God will not abandon him. This sense of relationship with God as primarily friendship is one of many intriguing and healing aspects we are invited to consider. George Herbert is one of the great 17th century poet-priests. His poems embrace every shade of the spiritual life, from love and closeness, to anger and despair, to reconciliation and hope. And his work is always rich with audacious playfulness: he seems to take God on, knowing God will win, as if he's having an argument with a faithful friend he knows is not going to leave. In much of theology and spirituality, God is a critical spectator to human lives, but for Herbert, his sense of relationship with God is primarily of a friendship that can never be broken. These are some of the themes Mark Oakley explores in this outstanding book 'My Sour-Sweet Days contains forty well-chosen poems by George Herbert (widely considered the greatest devotional poet in the English language), each of which is followed by a short but profound reflection by Mark Oakley. The combination is excellent: richly expressive poems and accessible personal meditations. This book powerfully demonstrates how poetry can bring comfort, refreshment and renewed energy to our spiritual lives.' Professor Helen Wilcox, editor of the critically acclaimed edition of The English Poems of George Herbert (Cambridge University Press, 2007) 'It's extremely unusual to meet anyone who isn't a specialist who has such a subtle feeling for language as Mark Oakley does.' Sir Andrew Motion, former Poet Laureate
Publisher: SPCK
ISBN: 028108033X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
Mark Oakley reveals George Herbert as a fine companion with whom to examine the journey of the soul. His poems are 'heart-work and heaven-work', embracing love and closeness, anger and despair, reconciliation and hope. There is too an appealing and audacious playfulness about Herbert: he seems to take God on, knowing God will win, confident God will not abandon him. This sense of relationship with God as primarily friendship is one of many intriguing and healing aspects we are invited to consider. George Herbert is one of the great 17th century poet-priests. His poems embrace every shade of the spiritual life, from love and closeness, to anger and despair, to reconciliation and hope. And his work is always rich with audacious playfulness: he seems to take God on, knowing God will win, as if he's having an argument with a faithful friend he knows is not going to leave. In much of theology and spirituality, God is a critical spectator to human lives, but for Herbert, his sense of relationship with God is primarily of a friendship that can never be broken. These are some of the themes Mark Oakley explores in this outstanding book 'My Sour-Sweet Days contains forty well-chosen poems by George Herbert (widely considered the greatest devotional poet in the English language), each of which is followed by a short but profound reflection by Mark Oakley. The combination is excellent: richly expressive poems and accessible personal meditations. This book powerfully demonstrates how poetry can bring comfort, refreshment and renewed energy to our spiritual lives.' Professor Helen Wilcox, editor of the critically acclaimed edition of The English Poems of George Herbert (Cambridge University Press, 2007) 'It's extremely unusual to meet anyone who isn't a specialist who has such a subtle feeling for language as Mark Oakley does.' Sir Andrew Motion, former Poet Laureate
Steps to the Temple
Author: Richard Crashaw
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Structure & Surprise
Author: Michael Theune
Publisher: Teachers & Writers Collaborative
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Structure & Surprise: Engaging Poetic Turns offers a road map for analyzing poetry through examination of poems' structure, rather than their forms or genres. Michael Theune's breakthrough concept encourages students, teachers, and writers to use structure as a tool to see the fundamental affinities between strikingly different kinds of poetry and radically different literary eras. The book includes examination of the mid-course turn and the elegy, as well as the ironic, concessional, emblem, and retrospective-prospective structures, among others. In addition, 14 contemporary poets provide an example of and commentary on their own work.
Publisher: Teachers & Writers Collaborative
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Structure & Surprise: Engaging Poetic Turns offers a road map for analyzing poetry through examination of poems' structure, rather than their forms or genres. Michael Theune's breakthrough concept encourages students, teachers, and writers to use structure as a tool to see the fundamental affinities between strikingly different kinds of poetry and radically different literary eras. The book includes examination of the mid-course turn and the elegy, as well as the ironic, concessional, emblem, and retrospective-prospective structures, among others. In addition, 14 contemporary poets provide an example of and commentary on their own work.
Essential Articles for the Study of George Herbert's Poetry
Author: John Richard Roberts
Publisher: Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Publisher: Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description