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George Herbert's pleasure in brevity fed his interest in proverbs, which he collected over the years, and also possibly wrote some himself. The collection of over 1000 proverbs was first published in 1640, and again with additions in 1651 under the title 'Jacula Prudentum' .
23 de mai. de 2022 · Del resto, vide la madre di rado, George Herbert, ragazzo docile, propenso ai reami del sogno, di intricata intelligenza: si perfezionò al Trinity College di Cambridge, sapeva scrivere versi in greco e latino, accettò l’incarico di pubblico oratore dell’ateneo.
Virtue. By George Herbert. Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky; The dew shall weep thy fall to-night, For thou must die. Sweet rose, whose hue angry and brave. Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye; Thy root is ever in its grave,
As the culminating poem in the series, “Love (III)” seems to firmly settle which kind of “Love” Herbert intends to celebrate. But the poem also purports to show how God is Love—through its emphasis on God’s role as host. Herbert’s portrait of God-as-Love has long been admired as the crowning achievement of The Temple.
George Herbert (3 April 1593 – 1 March 1633) was a Welsh poet, orator and Anglican priest. Herbert’s poetry is associated with the writings of the metaphysical poets, and he is recognized as “a pivotal figure: enormously popular, deeply and broadly influential, and arguably the most skilful and important British devotional lyricist.”.
While George Herbert’s early adult life centered around the secular world of the university, his later dedication to Christianity and to poetry have had a lasting effect on literature. His mother was well acquainted with John Donne, with whose work Herbert’s is often associated. Herbert’s poetry, although often formally experimental, is always passionate, searching, and elegant.
The greater the elevation, the finer becomes the difference between sincerity and insincerity, between the reality and the unattained aspiration. And in this George Herbert seems to me to be as secure, as habitually sure, as any poet who has written in English. Several decades later, W.H. Auden put his own reactions to Donne and Herbert in ...
