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. that he no longer found satisfactory and rearranged some of the order- ing . ( Thomas indicated that his son actually made the selections , though it is difficult ...
... Thomas finally saw poetry as the best literary form " to express or con- vey religious truth .... Religion has to do first of all with vision , revelation , and these are best told in poetry ” ( “ A Frame for Poetry , " Selected Prose ...
... Thomas The secondary literature on Thomas is more limited and is less readily avail- able in the United States . We may expect it to increase , perhaps significantly in the next decade , and , I would hope , he might receive more ...
Contents
Preface | 1 |
The Vocations of Priest and Poet | 13 |
Country Parsons | 36 |
Copyright | |
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