"This Book of Starres" : Learning to Read George Herbert

White, James Boyd

ISBN 10: 0472083376 / ISBN 13: 9780472083374

Editore: University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor MI, 1995

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Front corner crease, otherwise light wear. Solid trade paperback. ; "This book is the record, and to some degree the enactment, of this engagement with the poetry of George Herbert. It has been a difficult, though highly pleasurable, book to write, for it has not been obvious to me how to talk about such a sustained and detailed experience as the reading of these poems has been." - Preface. ; xxii, 292 pages.

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• Titolo: "This Book of Starres" : Learning to Read George Herbert
• Editore: University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor MI
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0472083376
• ISBN 13: 9780472083374
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: Very Good-
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket
• Peso: 1,2 libbre

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<div>"A real pleasure. . . . Reading this book was like revisiting a country I thought I knew well with a guide who could show me all kinds of delights I had missed in my previous sojourns. . . . A terrific, engaging book." --Michael Schoenfeldt, author of <i>Prayer and Power: George Herbert and Renaissance Courtship</i> <br></div><div><i>"This Book of Starres"</i> is one of those all-too-rare books in which an author's love of someone's work--in this case, the seventeenth-century English poet George Herbert--leads to a journey of exploration. <br></div><div>Herbert's poetry presents a special set of challenges: It is to the modern ear archaic, difficult in thought and structure, and entirely theological in character. Yet no poet is more deeply admired by those who know him well. <i>"This Book of Starres"</i> is meant to engage the reader in a process of reading by which this verse can be seen to be vivid and alive. It is the record of one person's life-changing involvement with the poetry of George Herbert; in this it is about not only how, but why we read great poetry. <br></div><div>"It is a joy to experience Herbert's poetry in the company of James Boyd White, whose affinity for the work is always convincing and seems at times preternatural. <i>'This Book of Starres'</i> is a necessary pleasure: all readers of poetry, whether expert or inexpert, will find it enriching." --Alice Fulton <br></div><div>". . . both a delight to read, and one of the most instructive exercises in literature and theology I have read for a long time. . . . Herbert emerges as one of the greatest, a writer to test and change the imagination, the very way in which we think about the world and that which is beyond it." --Literature and Theology <br></div><div>James Boyd White is Hart Wright Professor of Law, Professor of English, and Adjunct Professor of Classical Studies, University of Michigan. <br></div>