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Articles on George Herbert in:
WOOL-GATHERER 1:
‘George Herbert and “The Forerunners”’: does literary skill in a religious poem dignify the subject or feed the writer’s vanity?
Extract:
"...This poem is part of an irreconcilable debate Herbert had with himself over the paradoxes of religious poetry (art and music will be similarly affected). How does one steer between the Scylla of wasting a God-given talent and fobbing God off with less than one’s best, and the Charybdis of falling in love, Narcissus-like, with one’s own eloquence and using the medium to show off rather than harnessing it for a divine purpose? Other poems, like the ‘Jordan’ pair and ‘Dulnesse’ are on a similar theme. Does writer’s block matter if the foundation of your belief, ‘Thou art still my God’, is intact? ..."
WOOL-GATHERER 2:
‘A Gourd of Grape-Juice...’: gardening as moral behaviour – John Milton, George Herbert and Ruth Pitter.
WOOL-GATHERER 6
Head to head with Woodbine Willie
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