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George Herbert: A Literary Life

By Cristina Malcolmson (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
2004
ISBN
978-0-333-66979-2, 978-0-230-53573-2, 978-0-333-71486-7, 978-0-333-80334-9
DOI
10.1057/9780230535732
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1097838 bytes)
Series
Literary Lives
Edition
1
Pages
XXXV, 175\208
Time added
2016-03-14 21:35:01
British and Irish Literature; Poetry and Poetics;

Description

This volume replaces the traditional image of George Herbert as meditative recluse with a portrait of the poet as engaged throughout his life with the religion, politics and society of his time. Instead of an isolated genius living in retreat from the world, Herbert appears as a man writing public verse, active within an important social circle, and committed to nationalistic Protestantism. The book attends to the poetic brilliance of his verse as well as the institutions and contexts that influenced him: the upper class coterie, Cambridge University, and the Church of England.

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