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. |
この書籍内から
検索結果1-5 / 31
... Donne. As Frank Kermode has argued, readers who earnestly seek an undissociated sensibility to satisfy their own needs and theories will surely find one, whether in the works of Donne or Milton or Dante.' But in our modern preference ...
... Donne in “Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward” lays out the proposition on which the poem is based—“Let mans Soule be a Spheare, and then, in this, /The intelligence that moves, devotion is"—he appears to be stating only a tentative ...
... Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, and Traherne grows out of a sense of reality given brilliant expression by their contemporary, Sir Thomas Browne: “thus is man that great and true Amphibium, whose nature is disposed to live not onely like other ...
... Donne's “Goodfriday,” Herbert's “The Collar,” Vaughan's “The Search,” and Traherne's “Dissatisfaction,” even as it appears to have been a dominant force in the lives of the authors. Yet even as one lists these instances one becomes ...
... Donne's “silken snares and silver hooks” in “The Bait”—emphasize the positive, allowing reader and persona to dwell on the adjective or adjectival phrase, but later poems force a recognition of the negative meanings of the central nouns ...