George Herbert: Verse and Prose

by Cope, Wendy

• ISBN13: 9780281054756
• ISBN10: 0281054754
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Pilgrim Pr

Summary

When Wendy Cope developed an interest in poetry, she bought a selection of George Herbert's verse. She writes of his work: 'I took to it immediately. What especially appealed to me -- and still does -- was this poet's wonderfully playful delight in poetic form, and the fact that these playful poems are, at the same time, utterly serious... There is humour, as well as exuberant inventiveness, in his work, but no one challenges his standing as a serious poet, whose primary concern was not to show off but to tell the truth.' In George Herbert: Verse and Prose, Wendy Cope has brought together a fine selection of Herbert's poems and introduces us to little of his prose and a few of his 'Outlandish Proverbs'. She has also provided an extended introduction to the work of this important seventeenth-century poet. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Wendy Cope is one of our best-known contemporary poets. She has contributed a programme about George Herbert to BBC Radio 4's Poetry Please. Her first collection of poems, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis (1986), includes a number of literary jokes and parodies in the style of the most notable poets of the twentieth century

Table of Contents

The Golden Age of Spiritual Writing	p. ix
Introduction	p. xiii
A Note on Reading Herbert	p. xxvi
The Dedication	p. 1
The Church-Porch	p. 2
The Altar	p. 21
The Reprisall	p. 22
Redemption	p. 23
Easter	p. 24
Easter-Wings	p. 25
Sinne	p. 26
Affliction	p. 27
Prayer	p. 30
The Holy Communion (1)	p. 31
Antiphon	p. 33
Employment	p. 34
The Holy Scriptures	p. 35
Whitsunday	p. 36
Mattens	p. 37
Even-Song	p. 38
Church-Musick	p. 39
The Windows	p. 40
Trinitie Sunday	p. 41
Content	p. 42
The Quidditie	p. 44
Avarice	p. 45
To all Angels and Saints	p. 46
Deniall	p. 47
Vertue	p. 48
The Pearl	p. 49
Unkindnesse	p. 51
Life	p. 52
Mortification	p. 53
Jordan	p. 55
Conscience	p. 56
The British Church	p. 57
The Quip	p. 58
Dialogue	p. 59
Providence	p. 60
Sinnes Round	p. 66
Peace	p. 67
Mans Medley	p. 69
The Storm	p. 71
The Method	p. 72
Divinitie	p. 74
The Discharge	p. 75
Praise	p. 77
The Collar	p. 78
The Glimpse	p. 79
The Call	p. 80
The Pulley	p. 81
The Priesthood	p. 82
The Search	p. 84
Grief	p. 87
The Crosse	p. 88
The Flower	p. 90
The Sonne	p. 92
A True Hymne	p. 93
Bitter-sweet	p. 94
The Glance	p. 95
The Forerunners	p. 96
The Invitation	p. 98
The Elixir	p. 100
A Wreath	p. 101
Judgement	p. 102
Heaven	p. 103
Love	p. 104
From A Priest to the Temple or The Country Parson The Parson praying	p. 105
The Holy Communion (2)	p. 107
Letter to Sir Henry Herbert	p. 109
A Selection from Outlandish Proverbs	p. 111
Select Bibliography	p. 115
Index of First Lines	p. 117
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