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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... church year form the basis for the topics and moods of Herbert's work.” Yet although this pattern is strongly marked in the first poems on the passion and resurrection of Christ, and although poems for other feasts of the church follow ...
... Church Triumphant. It is also to take as the climax of his efforts a poem that is very far from Herbert's best, a portrayal of struggle rather than of triumph or rest. The physical structure of a church or of a Hebrew temple has also ...
... deception, of manipulation of persona, language, and meter, may be detected as early as “The Church Porch,” with which The Temple begins. At first this purely didactic poem seems straightforward enough. It opens with a formula HERBERT 13.
... Church,” they will be. It is in fact the method of The Temple to begin with such terms as its readers will readily comprehend and, by using them in new ways, to shift their meaning to reveal another kind of truth. The word “sacrifice ...
... Church Porch” is ethical rather than sacramental and as poetry unremarkable. Yet its opening lines contain the language—“sweet,” “treasure,” “pleasure,” “bait,” “sacrifice”—that will dominate the rest of The Temple and be redefined by ...