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George Herbert : sacred and profane / edited by Helen Wilcox, Richard Todd.
- Title
- George Herbert : sacred and profane / edited by Helen Wilcox, Richard Todd.
- Publication
- Amsterdam : VU University Press, 1995.
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- Description
- xix, 211 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Herbert, George, 1593-1633 > Criticism and interpretation
- 1500-1700
- Christian poetry, English > History and criticism
- Religion and literature > Great Britain > History > 17th century
- Theology in literature
- Christian poetry, English > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
- Christianity and literature > England > History > 17th century
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction: historicisms and George Herbert / Richard Todd -- Sacred rhythms & sacred contradictions: prolegomena to a study of Herbert's Liturgical consciousness / Mario A. di Cesare -- Sacred singer/profane poet: Herbert's split poetic persona / Elizabeth Clarke -- 'How all thy lights combine': Herbert and King's / Diane Kelsey McColley -- From Venus to virtue: sacred parody and George Herbert / John Ottenhoff -- George Herbert's language of Canaan / Robert Cummings -- George Herbert and divine Paronomasia / R.V. Young, Jr. -- 'A title strange, yet true': toward an explanation of Herbert's titles / Matthias Bauer -- Meating God: Herbert's poetry and the discourse of appetite / Heather Ross -- 'All things are big with jest': irony in Herbert's Temple / Helen Wilcox -- George Herbert's apocalypticism: secular and sacred / Ted-Larry Pebworth.
- 'The sweet cement ... is love': George Herbert and the emblem books / Bart Westerweel -- Emblematic and incremental imagery: Rabelais, Spenser, Milton, Herbert, Cats / Kay Gilliland Stevenson -- 'The present times are not/to snudge in': Henry Vaughan, The temple, and the pressure of history / Robert Wilcher --Mystery, imitation, craft: from George Herbert to Sylvia Plath / Cedric Brown.
- ISBN
- 9053833684 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^^95233072^
- OCLC
- 33840678
- SCSB-11720123
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library