This e-book offers a traditionally and seriously nuanced research of George Herbert's biblical poetics. Situating Herbert's paintings within the context of transferring rules of biblical secret, Gary Kuchar indicates how Herbert negotiated competing impulses inside post-reformation thought-two opposite points of reformation spirituality as he inherited it: the impulse to walk in the park, insurance, and safety and the impulse to secret, ask yourself, and clever lack of knowledge. via sophisticated and richly contextualized readings, Kuchar areas Herbert inside a trans-historical culture of biblical interpretation whereas additionally finding him firmly in the context of the early Stuart church. the result's a panoramic ebook that's bound to be of curiosity to scholars and students throughout a number of assorted fields, together with seventeenth-century reviews, poetry and the bible, and literature and theology.
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