In recent years George Herbert's poetry has been analyzed by
some of our most distinguished literary critics. Offering close
readings of central poems, and insights derived from contemporary
literary theory, Barbara Harman takes her place in their
company.
She begins by surveying the critical tradition on Herbert's work
in our century--from George Herbert Palmer to Stanley Fish. In this
penetrating assessment Harman explores the relationship between
critical practice and belief.
The impulse toward self-representation is, she argues, a
powerful one in Herbert's work, and it is also an impulse thwarted
and redesigned in extraordinary ways. In poems Harman calls
fictions of coherence and "chronicles of dissolution," speakers
both protect and dismantle their own narratives, and because they
do they raise questions about the values we attach to stories and
about the difficulties we undergo when stories fail to represent us
in traditional ways.
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