Poets' Meeting: George Herbert, R.S. Thomas, and the Argument with GodGeorge Herbert (1593-1633) and R.S. Thomas (1913-2000), each a major English poet and an Anglican priest, lived in very different times, one before the Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment, and industrialization, and one following. Yet the two men and their poetry bear striking resemblances: Both loved nature and music, both were pacifists, and both struggled with the claims of faith, the nature of the spiritual life, and the recurrent silences of God. This book demonstrates that when their lives and poems are studied side by side, each man enhances our understanding of the other. The first essay deals with their sense of calling as priests and poets. The work then explores topics that relate to their roles as parish priests: ministry, the Bible, the Eucharist, and prayer. Several essays follow dealing with broader questions of the human condition: faith, sin, love, reason and science, and nature. The work concludes by considering their poems about Christmas, Good Friday, and Easter. |
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George Herbert, R.S. Thomas, and the Argument with God William J. McGill. I make a point of referring to the issue of the manuscripts here in order to set the foundation for the way in which I approach Herbert's poetry . As noted , Herbert ...
... Herbert and the Bible ( Berkeley , 1985 ) , Chana Bloch argued that " if we take as our guide the Bible , we can come closest to the very center of The Temple . " Her point is well taken though Herbert is not unique among the religious ...
George Herbert, R.S. Thomas, and the Argument with God William J. McGill. invaluable volume in that series , English Literature in the Sixteenth Century exclud- ing Drama ( Oxford University Press , London , 1954 ) . After all , the ...
Contents
Preface | 1 |
The Vocations of Priest and Poet | 13 |
Country Parsons | 36 |
Copyright | |
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