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George Herbert
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Standard Name: Herbert, George
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Jennings | She includes poems for poets, artists, and thinkers: George Herbert
, Charles Causley
, Philip Larkin
, J. M. W. Turner
, Caravaggio
, Chardin
, Goya
, Hume
, and Descartes
. A sequence... |
Textual Production | Barbara Pym | The title is quoted from The Pulley by George Herbert
: When God first made man; / Having a glasse of blessings standing by, he poured blessing after blessing out on mankind, but withheld the... |
Textual Production | Ruth Rendell | RR
's novel No Man's Nightingale (completed in March this year; title from George Herbert
) revealed that Wexford looked no more likely to retire in good earnest than his creator. Flood, Alison. “Two faces of Britain’s thriller queen”. The Guardian Weekly, p. 39. |
Textual Production | Jo Shapcott | During the same year she and Matthew Sweeney
jointly edited an anthology, Emergency Kit: Poems for Strange Times, which draws on worldwide modern writing in English. In 2002 she edited the anthology Discourses... |
Textual Production | Emma Jane Worboise | EJW
also wrote novels which respond in similar manner to Charlotte Yonge
's Heartsease; or, The Brother's Wife and Elizabeth Sewell
's Amy Herbert. In each of these (titled respectively Hearts-ease in the Family... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Bishop | |
Textual Production | Rose Macaulay | Writing about a wide range of authors from Caedmon
to Coventry Patmore
, she devotes a significant portion of the book to the seventeenth century, which held a great interest for her. The chapter Anglicans |
Textual Production | Emma Marshall | After Cowper, EMdid the poet George Herbert
in Under Salisbury Spire, in the Days of George Herbert, the Recollections of Magdalene Wydville and the diarist Margaret Hoby
in Eventide Light; or, Passages in the... |
Textual Production | Candia McWilliam | CMW
titled her first novel A Case of Knives, quoting George Herbert
, who says his thoughts are these knives (Nothing their fury can control, / While they do wound and pink my... |
Textual Production | Wendy Cope | She has followed that with a collection for children, The Orchard Book of Funny Poems (illustrated by Amanda Vesey
), 1993, and with three anthologies published by Faber and Faber
:The Funny Side: 101... |
Textual Features | Frances Horovitz | Flowers was written for the painter and writer Winnifred Nicholson
, who died in 1981. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Winifred Nicholson |
Textual Features | Anne Stevenson | Despite the strong emotion expressed in some of these poems, AS
later remembered the volume as setting free her gift for irony. Stevenson, Anne. Between the Iceberg and the Ship. University of Michigan Press. 126 |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Jennings | Every Changing Shape was reprinted in 1996 by Carcanet Press
with a foreword by Michael Schmidt
. It collects essays on Christian writers and mystics that address the way that faith informs the creative imagination... |
Textual Features | Eleanor Tatlock | Among ET
's shorter poems, her forms include hymns, odes, fables (the magpie and the stork, the rose and the thorn), and blank verse. A poem on Richborough Castle near Sandwich has masses of historical... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Bishop | This book's title has been called the first of many to reflect EB
's concern with places. Place, however, is not described but interrogated, in abstract and self-enquiring poems, like Paris, 7 a.m. This... |
Timeline
After early March 1633: George Herbert's volume of devotional poems,...
Writing climate item
After early March 1633
George Herbert
's volume of devotionalpoems, The Temple, was posthumously published following his death on 1 March this year.
Before October 1646: Roman Catholic poet Richard Crashaw (1613?-48)...
Writing climate item
Before October 1646
Roman Catholic poet Richard Crashaw
(1613?-48) published his Steps to the Temple. SacredPoems, with other Delights of the Muses.
2 February 1651: The second of Izaak Walton's biographies...
Writing climate item
2 February 1651
The second of Izaak Walton
's biographies appeared, that of Sir Henry Wotton
, as preface to a volume entitled Reliquiae Wottonianae.
Texts
Herbert, George. The Temple. Scolar Press, 1968.