The Shadow of Eternity: Belief and Structure in Herbert, Vaughan, and TraherneUniversity Press of Kentucky, 2014/10/17 - 200 ページ The poetry of Herbert, Vaughan, and Traherne represents "an attempt to shape their lives and verse around the fact of divine presence and influence," writes Sharon Seelig. The relationship between belief and expression in these three metaphysical poets is the subject of this deeply perceptive study. Each of these poets held to some extent the notion of dual reality, of the world as indicative of a higher reality, but their responses to this tradition vary greatly—from the ongoing struggle between God and the poet of The Temple, which finally transforms the materials of everyday life and worship; to the more difficult unity of Silex Scintillans, with its tension between illumination and resignation; to the ecstatic proclamations of Thomas Traherne, whose sense of divine reality at first seems so strong as to destroy the characteristic metaphysical tension between this world and the next. Seelig's study proceeds from individual poems to the whole work, exploring the relation of cosmology and religious experience to poetic form. |
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... The Works of Henry Vaughan, ed. L. C. Martin (2d ed. 1957); and Thomas Traherme: Centuries, Poems, and Thanksgivings, ed. H. M. Margoliouth (2 vols. 1958). It's not a matter of peeling away the surface and Acknowledgments.
... century, it has become clear that the abundance of definitions and descriptions produced by that initial enthusiasm ... centuries of biblical scholarship and religious meditation, originating in the method of exegesis that related the ...
... century monk contrasts with the intuitive flashes of the seventeenth-century mystic Jacob Böhme, but their perceptions have a common basis—the belief in a complex but essentially unified reality: “When I take up a stone or clod of earth ...
... century. Their poetry turns on the precarious balance between the divided and distinguished worlds in which they lived, a balance that became ever more difficult to maintain as the century wore on. The metaphysical conceit is not only a ...
... century of making connections between them, of living simultaneously in both. George Herbert, writing of man's amphibious state, described himself as “A wonder tortur'd in the space/Betwixt this world and that of grace,”** and his poems ...