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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... thought in such terms, but rather those who were self-conscious in their expression of a world view slipping away forever. This distinction is made by Herbert Read, who, in describing Dante, in contrast to Donne, as one who writes ...
... thoughts a starre did shoot into my lap. I rose, and shook my clothes, as knowing well, That from small fires comes oft no small mishap. When suddenly I heard one say, Do as thou usest, disobey, Expell good motions from thy breast ...
... thought no further than his own parishioners crouched “in hudling, or slubbering fashion, gaping, or scratching the head”;” moreover his definition of “A true Hymne”—“when the soul unto the lines accords”—suggests by implication the ...
... thought of waving. (lines 1–4) So begins the human speaker in “Dialogue,” in rhythm deceptively simple and regular, as if his were the voice of purest innocence. But the grammatical superlative—"Sweetest Saviour"—is not matched by the ...
... thoughts, like a brittle bow, / Did flie asunder” (lines 6–7). Herbert's images create cumulatively the picture of a man with soul and body literally distracted and dissolved: My heart was in my knee, But no hearing. Therefore my soul ...