George Herbert

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

Advising a would-be poet, EB wrote: Read a lot of poetry—all the time—and not 20th-century poetry. Read Campion , Herbert , Pope , Tennyson , Coleridge —anything at all almost that's any good, from the...

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...

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...

In this collection Cambridge again functions as an important subject. Frances Cornford saw her Cambridge poems as emblematic of her poetry as a whole. They served as a gauge for her poetic development and also...

Flowers was written for the painter and writer Winnifred Nicholson , who died in 1981. Its heavily-symbolic title paradoxically suggests both life and death; it expresses a foreboding sense of the latter...

Despite the strong emotion expressed in some of these poems, AS later remembered the volume as setting free her gift for irony. The final poem, A Legacy, On my Fiftieth Birthday, is written...

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...

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...