George Herbert

MF , hardly a writer herself; was the matriarch of a seventeenth-century family which lived like a religious community, and which seems to have composed dialogues and short moral histories collaboratively, as well as letters...

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

Leighton Bromswold has been at some dates assigned to Huntingdonshire. Eighty years after this, George Herbert was to become prebendary there.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

RR 's novelNo 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.

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...

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...

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...

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