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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... souls as to “other Spheares”: both are subject to “forraigne motions.” Indeed one of the thrusts of the poem is to make us aware how completely such “forraigne motions” dominate—so much so that it is hardly true that the poet's “Soules ...
... Soul a Spirit infinit!” The seventeenth century was an age in which many became wits or visionaries but in which few—the metaphysical poets among them—united the two tendencies within themselves. It yielded to an age in which Pope ...
... never went beyond his description of the little book as “a picture of the many spiritual Conflicts that have past betwixt God and my Soul, before I could subject mine to the will of Jesus my Master.” I. Between Two Worlds: HERBERT.
... soul. Joseph Summers and, more recently, Stanley Fish, have stressed the central importance of sacrifice for Herbert." Fish argues that Herbert seeks finally to do away with his sense of self, as distinguished from God, to give up even ...
... soul and friend or soul and savior discourse. But even in these instances there are surprises: “The Sacrifice” follows “The Altar,” which in the very severity of its form focuses attention on the poet himself, on the building of the ...