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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 'The Pulley' and the formal experimentation of 'Easter Wings' and 'Paradise', to the intense, highly personal relationship between man and God portrayed in 'The Collar' and 'Redemption', the works collected here show the transcendental power of divine love.… (más)
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Lord, my first fruits present themselves to thee; Yet not mine neither: for from thee they came, And must return. Accept of them and me, And make us strive, who shall sing best thy name. Turn their eyes hither, who shall make a gain: Theirs, who shall hurt themselves or me, refrain.
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[Introduction] George Herbert is either our most major poet in English literature or he is the most modestly exquisite of our major poets.
[A Note on the Texts] This text of "The Temple" is a modernized spelling version of the first edition of 1633 (hereafter referred to as 1633).
[A Note on Metre] The reader will see and hear in the midst of an astonishing variety of stanzaic forms, some unusual in the history of English verse, and inventive shifts in form within a single poem, Herbert's rhythm with in a line is exact and regular.
[The Printers to the Reader] The dedication of this work having been made by the author to the Divine Majesty only, how should we now presume to interest any mortal man in the patronage of it?
Thou, whose sweet youth and early hopes enhance Thy rate and price, and mark thee as a treasure; Harken unto a Verser, who may chance Rhyme thee to good, and make a bait of pleasure.
[Izzak Walton's "The Life of Mr George Herbert] In a late retreat from the business of this world with which I have too often cumbered myself, I fell into a contemplation of some of the historical passages that are recorded in Sacred Story; and, more particularly, of what had passed betwixt our Blessed Saviour and that wonder of women, and sinners, and mourners, Saint Mary Magdalene.
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[Introduction] While we never know how a true conversation will develop and end, in Herbert, as we sit down and read, we are uncertain only of how the conversation with God will develop; we always know how it will end.
[A Note on the Texts] Scripture is cited from the Authorised Version of 1611, the King James Bible, except for passages from the Psalms, which are from the Book of Common Prayer, the text Herbert himself used.
[A Note on Metre] Some instances may allow for debate, as one person's seventeenth-century shift in stress in another person's trochee, but Herbert's careful keeping of accent point to each need for added emphasis in metres that are the simple frames within which the poet's voice provides a rich and complicated variety of emphases in sense.
[The Printers to the Reader] We conclude all with his own Motto, with which he used to conclude all things that might seem to tend any way to his own honour: Less than the least of God's mercies.
Grant this dear Father, for thy Son's sake our only Saviour: to whom with thee, and the Holy Ghost, three Persons, but one most glorious, incomprehensible God, be ascribed all Honour, and Glory, and Praise, ever. Amen
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 'The Pulley' and the formal experimentation of 'Easter Wings' and 'Paradise', to the intense, highly personal relationship between man and God portrayed in 'The Collar' and 'Redemption', the works collected here show the transcendental power of divine love.
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