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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... Faith Makes Me Anything and All " The consideration of prayer , both corporate and personal , necessar- ily leads to a consideration of faith , for prayer , by definition , is conversa- tion with the Other and unless there is faith that ...
... Faith , " suggesting that it is faith which leads to prayer . It begins : Lord , how couldst thou so much appease Thy wrath for sinne as , when mans sight was dimme And could see little , to regard his ease , And bring by Faith all ...
... faith , seems to be followed by recession , by confusion , by doubt . Herbert limned the pattern in the opening stanza of " The Tem- per ( 1 ) " : How should I praise thee , Lord ! how should my rymes Gladly engrave thy love in steel ...
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 |