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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... thee ; Yet not mine neither : for from thee they came , And must return . Accept of them and me , And make us strive , who shall sing best thy name . Turn their eyes hither , who shall make a gain : Theirs , who shall hurt themselves or ...
... thee . The second and third stanzas follow the same form treating " the wayes of Honour " and " the wayes of Pleasure , " detailing his intimacy with them and their appeal . Always he ended , " Yet I love thee . " The fourth stanza ...
... thee to see , And what I do in any thing , To do it as for thee : Not rudely , as a beast , To runne into an action ; But still to make thee prepossest , And give it his perfection . A man that looks on glasse , On it may stay his eye ...
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 |