The Poetry of George Herbert

Helen Vendler

Published by Harvard University Press 1975

The Poetry of George Herbert

Helen Vendler

https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674864665

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Vendler Helen :

Helen Vendler is A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University.

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Vendler's fluent study explains the poet in full, from a close reading of one work (to establish his precise craftsmanship) to chapters on the emblems, liturgical poems, ethical poems, and patterned poems. But there is more than just annotated classification here, for Vendler continually shows stages of development in Herbert's thought and craft.

Few English poets raise more clearly than Herbert, or in more challenging and explorable ways, deeper questions as to the techniques, conditions, kinds and aims of poetry and its variant relations to experience...It is her full recognition of these characteristics which makes Helen Vendler's study, The Poetry of George Herbert, so admirable as a continuation of the efforts in recent decades to return Herbert nearer to his due place. Her fine and generous understanding of these efforts combines with her venturesome yet wary percipience to make her a most enheartening as well as a steadying companion in the rereadings of Herbert (and the rethinkings) that her work will promote.

Helen Vendler in The Poetry of George Herbert shows herself to be the most distinguished contemporary practitioner of the New Critical tradition of 'close reading.'

Vendler is undoubtedly a finely trained and extraordinarily resourceful reader, and I cannot imagine that anybody who cares for Herbert, or more generally for poetry, will fail to learn something from this book.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. A Reading of Vertue Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
2. Alternatives: The Reinvented Poem Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
3. Beauty in Discovery: Emblems and Allegories Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
4. Imitators and Adapters Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
5. “My God, I Mean Myself”: Liturgical and Homiletic Poems Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
6. Configurations and Constellations: Ethical, Discursive, and Speculative Lyrics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	180
7. Fruit and Order: Formal Patterns Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	202
8. Conflicts Pictured Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
Notes. Index
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
Index of Titles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	299
Index of First Lines Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301

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Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Copyright year: 1975
Edition: Reprint 2014
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 303
Illustrations
- Other: 1 Frontispiz
Keywords: Herbert, George, 1593-1633 -- Criticism and interpretation.; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry; LITERARY CRITICISM / General

eBook

Published: October 1, 2013
ISBN: 9780674864665

Hardcover

Published: February 5, 1975
ISBN: 9780674864641