George Herbert combined the intellectual and the spiritual, the humble and the divine, to createsome of the most moving devotional poetry in the English language. His deceptively simple verseuses the ingenious arguments typical of seventeenth-century metaphysical poets and unusualimagery drawn from musical structures, the natural world, and domestic activity to explore amosaic of Biblical themes. From the wit and wordplay of "The Puley" and the formalexperimentation of "Easter Wings" and "Paradise," to the intense, highly personal relationshipbetween man and God portrayed in "The Collar" and "Redemption," the works collected here showthe transcendental power of divine love. This vast collection includes all Herbert?s English poems,selections from his Latin poetry with translations, his major prose work A Priest to theTemple, and Izaak Walton?s Life of Herbert.
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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 aThe Puleya and the formal experimentation of aEaster Wingsa and aParadise, a to the intense, highly personal relationship between man and God portrayed in aThe Collara and aRedemption, a the works collected here show the transcendental power of divine love. This vast collection includes all Herbertas English poems, selections from his Latin poetry with translations, his major prose work "A Priest to the Temple," and Izaak Waltonas "Life of Herbert." 作者简介
George Herbert (1593?1633) was educated at Westminster School and TrinityCollege, Cambridge, where he was appointed reader in rhetoric in 1618 and public orator in 1620.He attracted the attention of influential patrons, including King James I, before he took holy ordersin 1626.
John Tobin is a professor of English literature at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
| 出版社 | Penguin Classics |
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| 作者 | George Herbert |