Herbert: The Complete English Works (Everyman's Library)
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| Rating | : | 4.47 (950 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0679443592 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 592 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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From the Inside Flap Introduction by Ann Pasternak Slater
Herbert is one of the finest religious poets in any language, though even secular readers respond to his quiet intensity and exuberant inventiveness. The poems he made achieve a perfection of form and feeling, a luminosity and a metaphysical grandeur unexcelled in the history of English writing.Though long overshadowed by Donne and Milton, Herbert has come to be one of the most admired of the metaphysical poets. Such technical agility never seems ostentatious, however, for precision of language and expression of genuine feeling were his primary concerns. In this new edition of Herbert's works, the distinguished scholar and translator Ann Pasternak Slater shows through detailed textual notes, a reordering of the poems, and an extensive introduction just how great a writer Herbert is.. Herbert experimented brilliantly with a remarkable variety of forms, from hymns and sonnets to "pattern poems", the shapes of which reveal their subj
In the previous year he had married Jane Danvers after a courtship of only three days, and their marriage was a happy one. Herbert was an excellent Greek and Latin scholar and was fluent in Italian, Spanish and French; he was also an accomplished amateur musician. However, when his two aristocratic patrons, and then, in 1625, King James, all died, any hope of immediate preferment
Handsome Everyman Hardbound Beautiful book with an understated book jacket that seems perfectly suited to the intelligent, elegant, devotional poetry of George Herbert. No question about it, Herbert was a poet to be reckoned with. His verse is extremely stylized and contains complex structures and brilliant rhyming and meter. Nevertheless, they are all about his faith and about the church. Not being much into traditional religious faith, I find his poems, though indisputably brillia. Five Stars very good book. "Five Stars" according to randy hart. great job!