George Herbert: Sacred and ProfaneHelen Wilcox, Richard Todd VU University Press, 1995 - 211 pages |
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Page 71
... writing , that he confronts his own writing as the servant confronts the promissory note , that he is himself in the position of the reader , innocently but painfully bonded to signs whose import he does not himself recognize , but ...
... writing , that he confronts his own writing as the servant confronts the promissory note , that he is himself in the position of the reader , innocently but painfully bonded to signs whose import he does not himself recognize , but ...
Page 72
... writing English at all . The writing that Herbert confronts as he sits at his desk , the linguistic accidents he relies on , are ( he says ) in an important sense not the accidents of his own writing . ' Yet not mine neither : for from ...
... writing English at all . The writing that Herbert confronts as he sits at his desk , the linguistic accidents he relies on , are ( he says ) in an important sense not the accidents of his own writing . ' Yet not mine neither : for from ...
Page 128
... writing vividly defined in 1620 as that which ' with one eye looks two wayes at once'.3 It is thus characterized by doubleness of vision , and is most frequently recognized as a rhetorical device whereby words can say one thing and mean ...
... writing vividly defined in 1620 as that which ' with one eye looks two wayes at once'.3 It is thus characterized by doubleness of vision , and is most frequently recognized as a rhetorical device whereby words can say one thing and mean ...
Contents
Prolegomena | 3 |
Herbert and Kings | 33 |
Sacred Parody and George Herbert | 49 |
Copyright | |
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