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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... poet can express them in his art. “As God created a 'metaphysical' world, so the poet creates metaphysical' poems.” The poet creates in the image of God, without whose primary creation his secondary creation could never be; yet the poet's ...
... poet's religious and cosmological experiences, taken in their broadest senses. My aim is not to deduce biography ... poet's work, we are engaged in an undertaking in some ways analogous to the poet's own attempt to perceive his world ...
... poet's own soul. Joseph Summers and, more recently, Stanley Fish, have stressed the central importance of sacrifice ... poet does not lose but rather finds himself in a humble way; Arnold Stein considers Herbert's best poems those in ...
... poet's renunciation but with Christ's; that the noun of the title is not abstract but specific and proper. Unlike the poet who gives something of his own, Christ gives himself. This unexpected shift in persona and perspective paves the ...
... poet's own. But to say this is not so much to criticize them as readers as to acknowledge the success of Herbert's design, in which each poem is one of a long series of challenges we must meet before we can attempt the next. The Temple ...