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The Five Mystical Songs are a musical composition by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958), written between 1906 and 1911. [1] The work sets four poems ("Easter" divided into two parts) by seventeenth-century Welsh poet and Anglican priest George Herbert (1593–1633), from his 1633 collection The Temple: Sacred Poems.
George Herbert (3 April 1593 – 1 March 1633) [1] was an English poet, orator, and priest of the Church of England.His poetry is associated with the writings of the metaphysical poets, and he is recognised as "one of the foremost British devotional lyricists."
George Herbert's poem "Easter Wings" printed upright in modern type "Easter Wings" is a religious meditation that focuses on the atonement of Jesus Christ. [ 10 ] Its celebration of bodily and spiritual resurrection draws its theme from 1 Corinthians 15, and it is specially notable that the word ‘victory’ found in the Biblical text is ...
Henry Vaughan was born at Newton by Usk in the Llansantffraed (St. Bridget's) parish of Brecknockshire, the eldest known child of Thomas Vaughan (c. 1586–1658) of Tretower and Denise Jenkin (born c. 1593), the only daughter and heir of David and Gwenllian Morgan of Llansantffraed. [3]
A Priest to the Temple, or the Country Parson (1652), often abbreviated The Country Parson, a handbook on pastoral care by George Herbert, a Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest; The Country Parson, a pseudonym used by various writers on (generally Protestant) religious and moral topics in early modern American periodicals (e.g.
Magdalen Herbert born Magdalen Newport; Magdalen, Lady Danvers (1561 – buried 1 July 1627) was an English estate manager and patron. She was a patron to John Donne and the mother of poet George Herbert. She is seen as the head of an early English literary family. [1]
George Herbert Mead was an American philosopher. He was born on February 27, 1863, in South Hadley, Massachusetts. [7] He died on April 26, 1931, in Chicago, Illinois. George H. Mead studied at Oberlin College and Harvard University. [7] Mead was an instructor in philosophy and psychology at the University of Michigan from 1891 - 1894. [7]
An ancient English altar stone. Scriptural and liturgical allusions contribute to the phrasing of the poem's imagery. The altar’s fabric is reared of stone that “no workman’s tool hath touched”, which is in line with the divine commandment to the Jews after their exodus from Egypt that "if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up ...