George Herbert's LyricsJohns Hopkins University Press, 1968 M07 1 - 270 pages Originally published in 1968. The main purpose of this book is to demonstrate that George Herbert is one of the great masters of lyric poetry. Stein discusses Herbert's diction, imagery, syntax, and rhythm in light of his organization of the imaginative materials of time and self-consciousness and in light of his development of a rhetoric through which he could master the intimacies of personal failure and (what is far more difficult) express in language convincingly sincere states of positive religious achievement. |
Contents
The Art of Plainness | 1 |
The Movement of Words | 45 |
Complaint Praise and Love | 85 |
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acceptance action advance answer apparent argument attitude beauty begins believe called clear comes complaint complete death demonstrates desire direction discover distinction effect effort emphasis established example experience expression feeling felt final flowers force formal fourth further give God's grief hand heart Herbert hope human imaginative individual instance intellectual intensity invention kind knowledge language less limited living look man's mark materials matter meaning metaphor metrical mind move movement natural observe offer pattern perhaps phrasing plain pleasure poem poet poetic poetry practice praise present problems questions reason recognize relations religious requires rhetoric seems sense single soul speak stanza stress style syllables symbolic thee things third thou thought tion traditional true truth turn understanding whole wisdom writing