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The Complete English Poems (Penguin Classics)

The Complete English Poems (Penguin Classics)
By George Herbert

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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 Puley” 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. This vast collection includes all Herbert’s English poems, selections from his Latin poetry with translations, his major prose work A Priest to the Temple, and Izaak Walton’s Life of Herbert.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #77747 in Books
  • Published on: 2005-06-28
  • Released on: 2005-06-28
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: .91" h x 5.92" w x 7.84" l, .78 pounds
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 496 pages

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The Twenty-third Psalm
Aaron
Affliction (1)
Affliction (2)
Affliction (3)
Affliction (4)
Affliction (5)
The Agony [agonie]
The Altar
Ana {mary Army} Gram
The Answer
Antiphon (1)
Antiphon (2)
Artillerie
Assurance
Avarice
The Bag
The Banquet
Bitter-sweet
The British Church
The Bunch Of Grapes
Businesse
The Call
Charms And Knots
The Church Floore
Church Lock And Key
The Church Militant
Church Monuments
Church Rents And Schismes
Church-musick [church Music]
The Church-porch: Perirrhanterium, 10
The Church-porch: Perirrhanterium, 11
The Church-porch: Perirrhanterium, 12
The Church-porch: Perirrhanterium, 13
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The Church-porch: Perirrhanterium, 7
The Church-porch: Perirrhanterium, 70
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The Church-porch: Perirrhanterium, 73
The Church-porch: Perirrhanterium, 74
The Church-porch: Perirrhanterium, 75
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The Church-porch: Perirrhanterium, 77
The Church-porch: Perirrhanterium, 8
The Church-porch: Perirrhanterium, 9
The Church-porch: Superliminare
Clasping Of Hands
The Collar
Complaining
Confession
Conscience
Constancy
Content
The Crosse
The Dawning
Death
Decay
Denial [or, Deniall]
Dialogue
A Dialogue Anthem
The Discharge
Discipline
Divinitie
Doom's Day
Dotage
Dullness
Easter
Easter Wings
The Elixir
Employment (1)
Employment (2)
Envoy. To The Same. Another
Even-song (2)
Evensong (1)
Faith
The Familie
The Flower
The Foil
The Forerunners
Frailty
Giddinesse
The Glance
The Glimpse
Good Friday
Grace
Gratefulness
Grief
Grieve Not The Holy Spirit
Heaven
The Holdfast
Holy Baptism (1)
Holy Baptism (2)
Holy Christmas
The Holy Communion
The Holy Communion
The Holy Scriptures (1)
The Holy Scriptures (2)
Home
Hope
Humilitie
The Invitation
Jesu
The Jews
Jordan (1)
Jordan (2)
Joseph's Coat
Judgement
Justice (1)
Justice (2)
The Knell
L'envoy
Lent
Life
Longing
Love
Love (1)
Love (2)
Love (3)
Love Unknown
Love-joy
Man
Man's Medley
Mary Magdalene
Matins
The Method
Misery [miserie]
Mortification
Nature
Obedience
The Odor
An Offering
Our Life Is Hid With Christ In God (colossians 3:3)
Paradise
A Parodie
Peace
The Pearl
Perirrhanterium, 1
Perirrhanterium, 25. Maxims
Perirrhanterium, 55
Perirrhanterium, 68. Advice On Church Behaviour
Perirrhanterium, 72
Perseverance
The Pilgrimage
The Posie
Praise (1)
Praise (2)
Praise (3)
Prayer (1)
Prayer (2)
The Priesthood
Providence
The Pulley
The Quiddity
The Quip
Redemption
Repentance
The Reprisal
The Rose
The Sacrifice
The Search
Self-condemnation
Sepulchre
Sighs And Groans
Sin [or, Sinne, Or Sion] (1)
Sin [or, Sinne, Or Sion] (2)
Sin's Round
The Sinner
Sion
The Size
The Sonne
Sonnet
Sonnet
The Starre
The Storm
Submission
Sunday
The Temper (1)
The Temper (2)
The Thanksgiving
Time
To All Angels And Saints
To My Successor
To The Lady Elizabeth Queen Of Bohemia
To The Right Hon. The Lord Chancellor (bacon)
Trinitie Sunday
Trinity Sunday
A True Hymn [hymne]
Ungratefulness
Unkindnesse
Vanity [or, Vanitie] (1)
Vanity [or, Vanitie] (2)
Virtue [or, Vertue]
The Watercourse
Whitsunday
The Windows
The World
A Wreath
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Language Notes
Text: English, Latin (translation)
Original Language: Latin

About the Author
George Herbert was born in 1593. He was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was appointed Reader in Rhetoric in 1618, and PUblic Orator in 1620. Though he seemed destined for a great public career, attracting the attention of influential patrons, including King James I. However, when his patrons died, Herbert resigned from parliament and took holy orders in 1626, becoming rector of a tiny parish on Salisbury Plain. He died in 1633. John Tobin is currently a Professor of English Literature at the University of Massachusetts. he has published widely on the sources of Renaissance poetry.