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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... God, I mean my self.” The raging, rebellious voice of “The Collar” responds to the appellation “Child” with a submissive “My Lord ... God's gifts can be matched by man's endeavors. Surely I will revenge me on thy love, And trie HERBERT ll.
... God; he was aware of the role of forms of ritual in doing so. He frequently expressed a desire for useful activity (“Employment,” “Businesse”), and the temptation to believe that he could somehow repay God's mercies to him is especially ...