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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... serve in a manner he felt consistent with his powers . In retrospect , he would come to see this somewhat grudg- ing assent to vocation as evidence of too much pride : he would serve God , but he would tell God how to use him . For the ...
... served in rural Wales : the recognition that they have an unassuming wisdom that exceeds eru- dite knowledge . Their ... serve as supply so that the people might receive the Sacrament : not that he brought God to them , but that they ...
... serve his Creator by rejecting reason , but by aligning it with God's will . For all his breast - beating and self - deprecation , Herbert also asserted in his poem " Man , " My God I heard this day , That none doth build a stately ...
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 |