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Originally published in 1968. The main purpose of this book is to demonstrate that George Herbert is one of the great masters of lyric poetry. Stein discusses Herbert's diction, imagery, syntax, and rhythm in light of his organization of the imaginative materials of time and self-consciousness and in light of his development of a rhetoric through which he could master the intimacies of personal failure and (what is far more difficult) express in language convincingly sincere states of positive religious achievement.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Art of Plainness
Chapter 2. The Movement of Words
Chapter 3. Complaint, Praise, and Love
Chapter 4. Questions of Style and Form
Index

George Herberts Lyrics

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      Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
      Published 26 January 2020
      ISBN-13 9781421433820
      978-1421433820
      ISBN-10 1421433826
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      Literature: history and criticism

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Originally published in 1968. The main purpose of this book is to demonstrate that George Herbert is one of the great masters of lyric poetry. Stein discusses Herbert's diction, imagery, syntax, and rhythm in light of his organization of the imaginative materials of time and self-consciousness and in light of his development of a rhetoric through which he could master the intimacies of personal failure and (what is far more difficult) express in language convincingly sincere states of positive religious achievement.

      Table of Contents

      Preface
      Acknowledgments
      Introduction
      Chapter 1. The Art of Plainness
      Chapter 2. The Movement of Words
      Chapter 3. Complaint, Praise, and Love
      Chapter 4. Questions of Style and Form
      Index

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