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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... published none of his English poems during his lifetime . In his The Life of Mr. George Herbert , Izaak Walton says that shortly before his death he gave a manuscript of The Temple to Edmund Duncon with instructions to deliver it to his ...
... publish prose in Welsh , he never felt comfortable composing poetry in what was for him a second lan- guage . His first collection , Stones of the Field , appeared in 1946. His first significant recognition came in 1955 when he published ...
... published as a volume in The Classics of Western Spirituality series , ( Paulist Press , Mahwah NJ , 1981 ) . Diogenes Allen , Spiritual Theology . The Theology of Yesterday for Spiritual Help Today ( Cowley Press , Cambridge , Mass ...
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 |