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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... collections , each usually containing forty to sixty poems , assuming both an interactive and an experimental quality ... collection titles as Frequencies , Experimenting with an Amen , and Ingrowing Thoughts . But it is as true of the ...
... collection itself suggests the quality of testing , of seek- ing . This quality is not new to Thomas , but from this point on it seemed more central , more urgent , as the titles of subsequent collections reflect : Frequen- cies ( 1978 ) ...
... collection “ a visionary work , questioning the givenness of God against a suffering world . " More accurately , it represents a sustained effort " to find out what it means to use the word ' God ' in the late twentieth century . " That ...
Contents
Preface | 1 |
The Vocations of Priest and Poet | 13 |
Country Parsons | 36 |
Copyright | |
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Poets' Meeting: George Herbert, R.S. Thomas, and the Argument with God William J. McGill Limited preview - 2003 |