A Year with George Herbert - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Year with George Herbert write by Jim Scott Orrick. This book was released on 2011-05-12. A Year with George Herbert available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since 1633, when The Temple was first published, many notable Christians have testified of their love for George Herbert's poetry. The great nineteenth-century preacher C. H. Spurgeon and his wife would sometimes read Herbert's poetry together on Sunday evenings. Richard Baxter wrote, Herbert speaks to God like one that really believeth a God, and whose business in the world is most with God. C. S. Lewis described Herbert as a man who seemed to me to excel all the authors I had ever read in conveying the very quality of life as we actually live it from moment to moment . . . Regrettably, as the years have passed, Herbert's poetry has been increasingly neglected outside the academy. Many who would love Herbert have never even heard of him. Others feel intimidated by his poetry, fearing that they do not have the education necessary to understand what Herbert has written. In this book, Jimmy Scott Orrick has made the poetry of George Herbert accessible even to those who have had no experience reading poetry. In addition to providing thorough notes for each poem, Orrick also gives basic pointers about how to read poetry. Why not follow C. H. Spurgeon's example and have a page or two of good George Herbert on your Sunday evenings? Those who follow this prescription will be deeply enriched for having spent A Year with George Herbert.
Music at Midnight
Music at Midnight - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Music at Midnight write by John Drury. This book was released on 2014-04-01. Music at Midnight available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This “powerfully absorbing” biography of 17th century Welsh poet George Herbert brings essential personal and social context to his immortal poetry (Financial Times). Though he never published any of his English poems during his lifetime, George Herbert has been celebrated for centuries as one of the greatest religious poets in the language. In this richly perceptive biography, author and theologian John Drury integrates Herbert’s poems fully into his life, enriching our understanding of both the poet’s mind and his work. As Drury writes in his preface, Herbert lived “a quiet life with a crisis in the middle of it.” Beginning with his early academic success, Drury chronicles the life of a man who abandons the path to a career at court and chooses to devote himself to the restoration of a church in Huntingdonshire and lives out his life as a country parson. Because Herbert’s work was only published posthumously, it has always been difficult to know when or in what context he wrote his poems. But Drury skillfully places readings of the poems into his narrative, allowing us to appreciate not only Herbert’s frame of mind while writing, but also the society that produced it. He reveals the occasions of sorrow, happiness, regret, and hope that Herbert captured in his poetry and that led T. S. Eliot to write, “What we can confidently believe is that every poem . . . is true to the poet’s experience.” “It is hard to imagine a better book for anyone, general reader or seventeenth-century aficionado or teacher or student, newly embarking on Herbert.”—The Guardian, UK
The Temple
The Temple - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Temple write by George Herbert. This book was released on 1883. The Temple available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Waiting on the Word
Waiting on the Word - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Waiting on the Word write by Malcolm Guite. This book was released on 2015-08-31. Waiting on the Word available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For every day from Advent Sunday to Christmas Day and beyond, the bestselling poet Malcolm Guite chooses a favourite poem from across the Christian spiritual and English literary traditions and offers incisive seasonal reflections on it. A scholar of poetry as well as a renowned poet himself, his knowledge is deep and wide and he offers readers a soul-food feast for Advent. Among the classic writers he includes are: George Herbert, John Donne, Milton, Tennyson,and Christina Rossetti,as well as contemporary poets like Scott Cairns, Luci Shaw, and Grevel Lindop. He also includes a selection of his own highly praised work.
The Country Parson ; The Temple
The Country Parson ; The Temple - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Country Parson ; The Temple write by George Herbert. This book was released on 1981. The Country Parson ; The Temple available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. George Herbert (1593-1633) was an Anglican priest, poet and essayist--truly one of the most profound spiritual masters in the English tradition. His spirituality was a synthesis of Evangelical and Catholic piety.
