Last month I began in this space a 12-part, month-to-month series introducing poems from the Renaissance to the 21st century as a way to highlight the historic conversation that exists among poets ...

George Herbert’s shaped poetry subtly pushed back against the iconoclasm of the English Reformation V.M. Braganza - Historian, Harvard University George Herbert’s pictures aren’t just decorative. They ...

Here you have it — 18 lines of the most exquisite poetry from the devotional poet George Herbert. LEFT: Robert White’s 1674 portrait of George Herbert, from the UK’s National Portrait Gallery. RIGHT: ...

Christianity and Literature, Vol. 66, No. 1, Special Issue: George Herbert: Spiritual Poetics and Poetic Spirituality (December 2016), pp. 90-108 (19 pages) Abstract This article seeks to illuminate ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The recovery of an important seventeenth-century poetical miscellany, Cambridge Add. MS. 4138, calls both for a reassessment of George Herbert ...

GEORGE HERBERT is conventionally ranked among the minor poets. The classification has no great value, and instead of serving a useful purpose may only hinder the recognition of poetic greatness. In ...

It was the New Year's celebration, and Magdalen Newport Herbert had received two sonnets from her son, George. These were quite unlike those of William Shakespeare, who had published his Sonnets the ...

Ionce took a college course titled “Seventeenth-Century Metaphysical Poetry” and, like most young people, was bowled over by the poems of John Donne (1572-1631). They possess a fire and theatrical ...

Last week, Meghan O’Rourke, a culture critic for Slate and the author of The Long Goodbye, a memoir about losing her mother to cancer, published her second collection of poems, Once. Her new book ...

Like John Donne and Gerard Manley Hopkins, though not as flamboyant as the first or as metrically inventive as the second, George Herbert proved that devotional poetry can generate high intellectual ...

In Wallace Stegner’s novel Crossing to Safety a young woman named Char­ity advises her boyfriend to find something useful to do besides writing poems: “All I’m saying is that poetry isn’t direct ...

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