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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... truth underneath. The truth is on the surface; it's just a matter of finding it there. Gabriel Josipovici Time is a sacred thing; it flowes from Heaven, it is a thred spun from thence by the motion and circumvolution of the spheres. It ...
... truth, by playing on the variety of relationships that exists between the physical and spiritual worlds. On the one hand there seems a contrast or conflict between them: “I am carryed towards the West/This day, when my Soules forme ...
... truth: “Perhaps great places and thy praise/Do not so well agree” (“Submission,” lines 15–16). Such discoveries may make us smile at as well as judge the persona. Among the most amusing of Herbert's voices is that of the literal-minded ...
... truth. The word “sacrifice” in the seventeenth century had strong literal as well as metaphorical senses. It denoted the slaughter of animals and even of humans as an offering to the Judaeo-Christian God or to pagan deities; it marked ...
... truth, to a vision of a paradoxical and yet redemptive reality, to a world in which “Love is that liquour sweet and most divine, / Which my God feels as bloud; but I, as wine” (“The Agonie,” lines 17–18) or, as in “The Sacrifice,” in ...