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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... Priest and Poet The obvious place to begin is with the idea of calling , as priest and as poet . Whatever may divide and distinguish Herbert and Thomas from one another , they share these common vocations . Of course , there have been ...
... Priest " ( Not That He Brought Flowers ) , Thomas delineated lives of tedious devotion and service . They seem to differ from Morgan's only in the way the preacher in " The Chapel " differs from him : they know the world in which they ...
... priest , even a priest / poet like Thomas , who does it . But , to call up Charles Williams again : " My chief objection to the champions of Chris- tianity is that the objections to Christianity do not come from them ......... .. Why ...
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 |