George Herbert

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...

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...

ML was taught to read by her aunt Hannah Tireman , a professional upholsterer. She said later that she began to read both prose and poetry with avidity at an early age. Her...

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

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...

The fact that Mary Sidney did not print the psalms, as she did her brother's poems, says something about her attitudes both to print and to her own ranked and gendered identity as an author...

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...

The night of blessing comes to interrupt the poet's unhappy relationship with No-Sleep, which Like a cruel lover or spiteful mistress . . . demands my restless attentiveness. Nichol's range of reference is huge, taking...

KOB indicates her seriousness by her choice of title: it is quoted from a sonnet by George Herbert which consists entirely of definitions or periphrases for prayer, of which this is one. The novel...

SP 's son, Nicholas Farrar Hughes , was born at home in Plath's and Hughes 's house, Court Green in Devon, and named after the seventeenth-century Nicholas Ferrar , whom Ted Hughes claimed as...

SP cites her favourite English-language poet as the Scottish ChaucerianRobert Henryson . Other favourites include Sir Thomas Wyatt , George Herbert , Louis MacNeice , Louise Glück , and Edwin Morgan . SP has...

The poem that stands first in the volume, The Eclipse, characteristically combines religious with physical, cosmic imagery. The poet's soul longs to return whence she had her birth, but is bound by...

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...

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.

Most of these had been previously issued as part of other religious writings such as The Face of the Deep. Verses sold well, and reviewers enthusiastically compared CR 's achievement to that of George Herbert