George Herbert: Sacred and ProfaneHelen Wilcox, Richard Todd VU University Press, 1995 - 211 pages |
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Page 86
... metaphor , one beyond the separate metaphorical significance of the individual words . Our attention is forcibly drawn to what they have in common as represented by their similarity of sound . In a number , if not all , of Herbert's ...
... metaphor , one beyond the separate metaphorical significance of the individual words . Our attention is forcibly drawn to what they have in common as represented by their similarity of sound . In a number , if not all , of Herbert's ...
Page 98
... metaphor ; however , the poet's confidence in the metaphor rests upon the possibility of predicating analogi- cally of God such transcendental terms as wisdom , goodness , and justice as they are understood in human experience . Hence ...
... metaphor ; however , the poet's confidence in the metaphor rests upon the possibility of predicating analogi- cally of God such transcendental terms as wisdom , goodness , and justice as they are understood in human experience . Hence ...
Page 177
... metaphor proceeds by having only an odd , playful , and ill - fitting match to its reality ' , and on the way in which these flickers of connection illuminate experience . Other studies of reading , notably those of Wolfgang Iser ...
... metaphor proceeds by having only an odd , playful , and ill - fitting match to its reality ' , and on the way in which these flickers of connection illuminate experience . Other studies of reading , notably those of Wolfgang Iser ...
Contents
Prolegomena | 3 |
Herbert and Kings | 33 |
Sacred Parody and George Herbert | 49 |
Copyright | |
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