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Love Known (Paperback, New edition)
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Love Known (Paperback, New edition)
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This book changes the way we read one of the greatest masters of
the lyric poem in English. Unlike much recent scholarship on George
Herbert, Love Known demonstrates the inseparability of Herbert's
theology and poetry. Richard Strier argues persuasively for a
strongly Protestant Herbert who shared Luther's sense of the
primacy of the doctrine of justification by faith. Cutting across
traditional lines, the book is the first sustained study of the
theological basis of Herbert's poetry, pointing out connections
between Herbert and the Protestant "left" of his own and the
following era. In each chapter, Strier closely analyzes a coherent
group of Herbert's lyrics to reveal the theological motives of
their movements and design. When placed in a theological context,
the poems come into focus in a remarkable way: many hitherto
puzzling or unnoticed details are clarified, some neglected poems
emerge into prominence, and familiar poems like "Love" (III) and
"The Collar" take on new cogency. The chapters build on one
another, moving from the darker implications of "faith alone," the
insistence on the pervasiveness of sin and pride, to the comforting
implications of the doctrine, the assertion of the possibility of
freedom from anxiety, and the defense of individual experience.
Love Known thus offers not only a new historical approach to
Herbert, but a new appreciation of the relationship between the
psychological realism and human appeal of the lyrics and their
theological core.
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