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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."
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. While Herbert was a priest, Vaughan Williams himself was an atheist at the time (he later settled into a "cheerful agnosticism"), though this did not ...
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 ...
"The Altar" is a shaped poem by the Welsh-born poet and Anglican priest George Herbert, first published in his posthumous collection The Temple (1633). The poem is founded on a Baroque metaphor with a long history of prior use of coalescing verbal and visual image. The popularity of the collection in which it appeared is attested by eleven ...
"The Collar" is a poem by Welsh poet George Herbert published in 1633, and is a part of a collection of poems within Herbert's book The Temple. [1] The poem depicts a man who is experiencing a loss of faith and feelings of anger over the commitment he has made to God.
Vaughan was much indebted to George Herbert, who provided a model for his new-found spiritual life and literary career, [8] showing a "spiritual quickening and the gift of gracious feeling" derived from Herbert. [20]: p2 Archbishop Trench took the view, "As a divine Vaughan may be inferior [to Herbert], but as a poet he is certainly superior."
This is a list of English-language poets, who have written much of their poetry in English. [1] ... George Herbert (1593–1632, W)
John Hall (poet) Anthony Hammond; Christopher Harvey (poet) Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury; George Herbert; Robert Herrick (poet) Abraham Holland; Nicholas Hookes; John Hoskins (poet) Lucy Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon