George Herbert: Sacred and ProfaneHelen Wilcox, Richard Todd VU University Press, 1995 - 211 pages |
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Page 185
... Vaughan's ' poetic life ' , and an attempt has been made to free ' the younger poet from the shadow of his master ' by demon- strating that Herbert ' shaped rather than overwhelmed or displaced the Welsh poet's creative energies'.2 ...
... Vaughan's ' poetic life ' , and an attempt has been made to free ' the younger poet from the shadow of his master ' by demon- strating that Herbert ' shaped rather than overwhelmed or displaced the Welsh poet's creative energies'.2 ...
Page 193
... Vaughan's ' Misery ' emerges as a powerful and subtle statement of the political as well as the spiritual ... Vaughan's Silex Scintillans ( Cam- bridge : Cambridge UP , 1960 ) , 51 . Jonathan F.S. Post , Henry Vaughan : The Unfolding ...
... Vaughan's ' Misery ' emerges as a powerful and subtle statement of the political as well as the spiritual ... Vaughan's Silex Scintillans ( Cam- bridge : Cambridge UP , 1960 ) , 51 . Jonathan F.S. Post , Henry Vaughan : The Unfolding ...
Page 203
... Vaughan's poem is more inventive than Harvey's . He gets some sense of the interesting contrary movements and unexpected juxtapositions in Her- bert's sonnet . He has the skill which Harvey did not , of knowing that he should not hold ...
... Vaughan's poem is more inventive than Harvey's . He gets some sense of the interesting contrary movements and unexpected juxtapositions in Her- bert's sonnet . He has the skill which Harvey did not , of knowing that he should not hold ...
Contents
Prolegomena | 3 |
Herbert and Kings | 33 |
Sacred Parody and George Herbert | 49 |
Copyright | |
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