{"product_id":"george-herbert-and-the-seventeenth-century-religious-poets","title":"George Herbert and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Poets","description":"\u003ch1\u003eGeorge Herbert and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Poets\u003c\/h1\u003eGeorge Herbert\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: W. W. Norton  \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003eSeptember 1 1978\u003cbr\u003eEAN: 9780393092547\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 0393092542\u003cbr\u003eSynopsis: While most of the selections fall under the heading of religious poetry, the important secular verse of Marvell and Crashaw is included.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Eighty poems by Herbert have been selected from \u003cem\u003eThe Temple\u003c\/em\u003e, and two early poems from Isaak Walton's \u003cem\u003eLives\u003c\/em\u003e are also included. Crashaw is represented by sixteen poems from \u003cem\u003eSteps to the Temple, Delights of the Muses\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eCarmen Deo Nostro\u003c\/em\u003e; Marvell, by eighteen selections from \u003cem\u003eMiscellaneous Poems\u003c\/em\u003e; Vaughan, by forty-five poems from \u003cem\u003eSilex Scintillans, Parts I and II\u003c\/em\u003e; and Traherne, by twelve poems from the \u003cem\u003eDobell Folio, The Third Century\u003c\/em\u003e, and the \u003cem\u003eBurney Manuscript\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e All of the texts have been freshly edited, and spelling has been modernized. Textual Notes specify the procedures followed and give reasons for certain new readings. The poems are fully annotated in order to clarify unfamiliar allusions and images.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A broad range of critical viewpoints is represented in essays by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Aldous Huxley, W. H. Auden, T. S. Eliot, Anthony Low, L. C. Knights, E. B. Greenwood, Joseph H. Summers, Douglas Bush, Helen C. White, Austin Warren, Richard Strier, Frank Kermode, William Empson, M. C. Bradbrook, M. G. Lloyd Thomas, Edward S. Le Comte, Karina Williamson, Dennis Davidson, Robert Ellrodt, E. C. Pettet, S. Sandbank, Arthur Clements, H. M. Margoliouth, and Stanley Stewart.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e An Annotated Bibliography covers historical and cultural background, the lives and works of the individual poets, and several important aspects of religious belief especially relevant to the poems.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"27th Letter Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67391094423597,"sku":"20987","price":4.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/3588\/0749\/files\/original_4742f4d8-6704-4215-b7b0-5be9249b8506.jpg?v=1787351769","url":"https:\/\/27thletterbooks.com\/products\/george-herbert-and-the-seventeenth-century-religious-poets","provider":"27th Letter Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}