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Abstract: While solidly established as a canonical Herbert work in 1970s articles by Kenneth Alan Hovey and Ted-Larry Pebworth and Claude J. Summers, "To the Lady Elizabeth Queen of Bohemia" has received minimal scholarly attention since then.1 My purpose in this article is three-fold: to establish a more precise likely date for the poem (spring 1623), to understand the poem within its immediate historical context (including the literary response to the Palatinate crisis), and to engage in the sort of close reading of the poem customarily applied to the poems of The Temple.This, Herbert's longest secular English poem, offers a careful and nuanced reflection upon the complex and controversial political situation of King ... Read More PubDate: 2023-08-02T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In 1623 George Herbert joined a team of translators to render Francis Bacon's Advancement of Learning into Latin. Herbert had first written to Bacon in 1620 in his role as University Orator at Cambridge, thanking him for halting plans to drain the fens that supplied the River Cam with water, and in subsequent correspondence and poetry had no doubt impressed the elder statesman and scientist with his Latin.1 We do not know at present exactly which portions of the Advancement Herbert was responsible for converting into De Augmentis, as the work is known in Latin, but he became deeply familiar with Baconian thought, as evinced in his several poems to Bacon, especially the panegyric "In Honour of the Illustrious Lord ... Read More PubDate: 2023-08-02T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: "Church-monuments" has sometimes had the look of an outlier among George Herbert's poems. It has received infrequent notice in the periodical literature of late and gets bypassed or only a cursory attention in a number of important book-length studies in recent decades: by Richard Strier, Michael Schoenfeldt, Daniel Doerksen, Gary Kuchar to give a brief, partial list.1 In the twentieth century, it occupied at least in some circles a somewhat more prominent position. In an influential essay first published in 1939, Yvor Winters argued for the importance of the plain style in English poetry, and he later described this poem as "the last word in the sophistication of the plain style." For Winters, one of the things ... Read More PubDate: 2023-08-02T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Devotion, pleasure, and the body are commonly explored subjects in modern Herbert criticism. Since Rosemond Tuve's rejection of the more "profane" elements of Herbert's poetic vehicle in favor of its commonly emphasized sacred tenor, scholars like Michael Schoenfeldt and Terry Sherwood have argued for The Temple's attention to the body and sensation.1 More recently, Aaron Kunin has explored the interplay of power, humiliation, and desire between Herbert's speaker and his beloved in the concluding poem of "The Church."2 With these readings of Herbert in mind, this essay examines the paradox presented by Herbert's at once renunciate and impassioned persona in The Temple. Just as Herbert baptizes the conventions of ... Read More PubDate: 2023-08-02T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: My first dislocation was a matter not of miles but of millimeters – a journey only as far as the oily plunge from a fish's scales into its organs, but in that distance such a vastness that I've never found my way back from it. "Here and there," Elizabeth Bishop observes of the titular object of attention in her poem "The Fish":his brown skin hung in stripslike ancient wallpaper,and its pattern of darker brownwas like wallpaper:shapes like full-blown rosesstained and lost through age.1The language here moves not across the fish, but across the processes by which attention and description interinform, the texture of the stripped skin evoking wallpaper which then prompts a recognition of the similarities ... Read More PubDate: 2023-08-02T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The end is nigh. Poetry is dead. Old Possum killed it one hundred years ago, writes Matthew Walther (New York Times, December 29, 2022), though T.S. Eliot's poems themselves, with their "incantatory power," live in Walther's memory, speaking for, and as, "the final poet." (It is T.S. Eliot, of course, who is largely responsible for bringing Marvell and other "minor" metaphysical poets to more readers in the modern era.) Departments of Literature, particularly in the United States, are in sharp decline. Fewer and fewer students enroll in poetry courses, or in literature courses of any kind, faculty lines continue to be cut, and in some colleges and universities majors and departments have been eliminated. John ... Read More PubDate: 2023-08-02T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: This excellent study of George Herbert and Early Modern Musical Culture originated as a Cambridge doctoral thesis that was the winner of the inaugural Chauncey Wood Dissertation Prize of the George Herbert Society, awarded in 2014. Such an achievement already indicated the high quality of Simon Jackson's critical work, and the appearance this year of his extensively revised and expanded volume as a Cambridge monograph has been eagerly awaited by those of us fascinated by the relationship of Herbert's poetry to music. The book more than fulfils its early promise; indeed, it surpasses expectations and represents a major addition to Herbert criticism. In answering his opening question – How can our knowledge of ... Read More PubDate: 2023-08-02T00:00:00-05:00
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