Abstract: The poet-priest George Herbert is a kind of patron saint of Anglicanism, his poems much loved by readers and imitators from a variety of traditions, secular as well as religious. He is rightly known for his English poems, published posthumously in The Temple (1633). Based on these (with the major exception of "The Church Militant"), many readers imagine Herbert as private, otherworldly, even irenic – and not engaged with the disputes or politics of his time.This present collection offers another side of George Herbert: the man who exchanged witty, biting poems with Pope Urban VIII and who engaged in impassioned debate with the leading Scottish reformer Andrew Melville. We find public praise both of the new science ... Read More Keywords: Pickering, William,; Herbert, George, PubDate: 2018-01-09T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: In nobilissimi Comitis Palatini Ad Rhenum, et illustrissimae Dominae Elizabethae Nuptias Epithal:On the Wedding Nuptials of the most Noble Palatine Consort on the Rhine And of the Lady ... Read More Keywords: Pickering, William,; Herbert, George, PubDate: 2018-01-09T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: Lucus 32, "Triumphus Mortis" offer us the testimony of three sources, two of them manuscripts and one a printed version relying on a now-lost third manuscript:(1) "Triumphus Mortis" appears in the Williams manuscript (W), thought to be in Herbert's hand, the source of Hutchinson's printed version.(2) "Inuenta Bellica" is in the Alabaster manuscript in Chetham's Library, Manchester (C), reproduced here in facsimile, along with our transcription. This version does not include a line that appears in both W and in Pickering (see below), and is filled with errors in spelling and punctuation. We reproduce the manuscript here because it has much in common with the version in Pickering and offers independent manuscript ... Read More Keywords: Pickering, William,; Herbert, George, PubDate: 2018-01-09T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: We include here the Latin text as presented in Hutchinson (609-13), which he takes from "David Calderwood's Parasynagma Perthense. Anno M.DC.XX (no printer's name or place: the poem is described in a note as the work A. Meluini). Also appended to Calderwood's Altare Damascenum (1623), and included in Duport's Ecclesiastes Solomonis (1662)" (609, note). The facing translation is ours. See the Introduction for further comments on Melville as well as Herbert's response to his work.Ad Serenissimum Regemcontra Larvatam geminae Academiae Gorgonem Apologia,sive Anti-tami-cami-categoria,Authore A.M.To the Most Serene KingA defense against the Demonic Gorgon of the Twin Academy,Or Anti-ox-bridge-accusation,With the Author ... Read More Keywords: Pickering, William,; Herbert, George, PubDate: 2018-01-09T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: Musae Responsoriae has eleven different meters, the most variety in any of the collections of Herbert's Latin poems. They show the virtuoso command of the poet, perhaps in answer to Melville, whose Anti-Tami-Cami-Categoria is in a single, but difficult, lyric meter, the Sapphic. Lyric meters are those meters which were originally sung, accompanied by a lyre. Herbert uses not only the Sapphic meter, but several related lyric meters, the Glyconic, the First Asclepiadean, the Second Asclepiadean, the Alcaic Strophe, and the Third Archilochian. The remainder of the poems in this collection use non-lyric, spoken meters found in Herbert's other Latin works: elegiac couplet, dactylic hexameter, iambic trimeter, iambic ... Read More Keywords: Pickering, William,; Herbert, George, PubDate: 2018-01-09T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: All quotations from Herbert's English poems are taken from Wilcox's edition. Sequence titles are in Latin; individual poem titles appear here in English translation only. Due to its closeness to the Vulgate, which Herbert often echoes, the King James translation is our source for biblical quotations. Since Hutchinson's notes generally offer allusions in Latin or Greek only, Catherine Freis provides English translations.Line 1. The poem begins with a reference to the "fertile shore of the receding Nile" (l. 1). Herbert alludes again to the Nile River in Musae Responsoriae's concluding poem (40), comparing the flow of the "sweet Spirit" to the Nile's flow: "Just as, ungoverned by dikes, / The Nile pours out with its ... Read More Keywords: Pickering, William,; Herbert, George, PubDate: 2018-01-09T00:00:00-05:00
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