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 / 35
... thou hang'st upon the tree; I turne my backe to thee, but to receive Corrections, till thy mercies bid thee leave. At the heart of this poem that ponders the relative postures of body and spirit, finding them now in harmony, now in ...
... thou dost give me wealth, I will restore All back unto thee by the poore. (“The Thanksgiving,” lines 17–20) Sometimes, by contrast, such spiritual naïveté is seen in the discovery by an intelligent and worldly speaker of an amazingly ...
... Thou turnest th' edge of all things on me still, Taking me up to throw me down. ("The Crosse,” lines 1–6, 19–22) In all of these flawed voices there is of course something of the poet. Herbert had a genuine if not unambiguous desire to ...
... thou hast lost A joy for it worth worlds. Thus hell doth jest Away thy blessings, and extreamly flout thee, Thy clothes being fast, but thy soul loose about thee. (stanza 69) Yet another strain, muffled, even disguised, runs through ...
... delayes, Who takes thee by the hand, that thou likewise With him maySt rise: That, as his death calcined thee to dust, His life may make thee gold, and much more, just. (lines 1-6) But a few pages later, in “The Temper I,” the HERBERT 17.