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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... heart Comes to about the many hundred part . Yet Lord restore thine image , heare my call : And though my hard heart scarce to thee can grone , Remember that thou once didst write in stone . Knowing what we do of the character of ...
... heart serves as a dual symbol , for it is in the heart of man that sin takes root , but the heart's blood also recalls the sacrifice of the Cross . He wrote then of the sorrows of Jesus at the crucifixion in this crimson ink , and so ...
... heart , thy Lord is risen . Sing his praise Without delayes , Who takes thee by the hand , that thou likewise With him mayst rise : That , as his death calcined thee to dust , His life may make thee gold , and much more , just . Awake ...
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 |