George Herbert: Sacred and ProfaneHelen Wilcox, Richard Todd VU University Press, 1995 - 211 pages |
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... tion , with its fondness for epigrams and anagrams , with which even The Temple is furnished . However , the self - conscious wit of the humanist epi- grammatic style is not the favoured mode of The Temple , although it is absolutely ...
... tion , with its fondness for epigrams and anagrams , with which even The Temple is furnished . However , the self - conscious wit of the humanist epi- grammatic style is not the favoured mode of The Temple , although it is absolutely ...
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... tion . As she points out , the Reformation , rather than the Counter Reforma- tion , accounts for most of the sacred parodies written in the sixteenth cen- tury . But Tuve's attempt to ' protect ' Herbert from the ' cheapening ' evan ...
... tion . As she points out , the Reformation , rather than the Counter Reforma- tion , accounts for most of the sacred parodies written in the sixteenth cen- tury . But Tuve's attempt to ' protect ' Herbert from the ' cheapening ' evan ...
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... tion as an Anglican saint has ... hindered our understanding of his poetry by diverting attention from the amount of time and energy he invested in the world ' . As evidenced by a close reading of his poetry and prose , Herbert was ...
... tion as an Anglican saint has ... hindered our understanding of his poetry by diverting attention from the amount of time and energy he invested in the world ' . As evidenced by a close reading of his poetry and prose , Herbert was ...
Contents
Prolegomena | 3 |
Herbert and Kings | 33 |
Sacred Parody and George Herbert | 49 |
Copyright | |
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