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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... follows from that . I then attempt to engage them on a series of topics which relate most particularly to their roles as parish priests : ministry , the Bible , the Eucharist , and corporate and personal prayer . There follow several ...
... follows " The Agonie " and directly precedes his " Good Friday " poems . The former , in effect , declares that if you want to know what sin is look to the agony of the crucified and if you want to know what love is look to the ...
... follows , “ Dotage . ” And what we must remember about both poems is that they follow " The Crosse , " Herbert's hymn to " this strange and uncouth thing " which looms as the most powerful symbol of God's love and the most eloquent ...
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 |