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

Published: 2024-01-11

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 0198874405

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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.


The Complete English Poems

The Complete English Poems

Author: George Herbert

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 9780140423488

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The Temple, Herbert's great structure of poems, first appeared in 1633, the year of his death. Centring on the Eucharist, these poems contain both the struggles of a man wishing to give himself up to God, and those of a poet for whom true humility was the sharpest agony simply because he was a great poet. All the elements in Herbert's poetry-its mosaic of biblical themes, its complex simplicity, compression and understatement-combine to make it a poetry of connection, celebrating the divine plan and dramatizing how contradictions and ambiguous states can be transcended in response to God's love.This Penguin Classics edition takes in significant variants and early versions as well as English poems not included in The Temple, and selections from Herbert's Latin poetry with translations.


The Ashgate Research Companion to John Owen's Theology

The Ashgate Research Companion to John Owen's Theology

Author: Mr Mark Jones

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2015-07-28

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1472466969

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As a revival in Owen studies and reprints has taken place, this much-needed Companion by an international group of leading scholars, helpfully explores key questions related to Owen's method, theology and pastoral practice. Examining his thought through such topics as his epic work on the Holy Spirit, his developed view of faith and reason, and his contribution to the place of toleration, this book offers an authoritative exploration of Britain's greatest theologians.