Easter Wings
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Poet George Herbert 1593–1633
POET’S REGION Wales
SCHOOL / PERIOD 17th Century
Subjects Disappointment & Failure, Living, Health & Illness, Religion, Faith & Doubt, Coming of Age, Christianity, God & the Divine
Holidays Easter
Poetic Terms Rhymed Stanza, Concrete or Pattern Poetry
Biography
Nestled somewhere within the Age of Shakespeare and the Age of Milton is George Herbert. There is no Age of Herbert: he did not consciously fashion an expansive literary career for himself, and his characteristic gestures, insofar as these can be gleaned from his poems and other writings, tend to be careful self-scrutiny rather than rhetorical pronouncement; local involvement rather than broad social engagement; and complex, . . .
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SUBJECT Disappointment & Failure, Living, Health & Illness, Religion, Faith & Doubt, Coming of Age, Christianity, God & the Divine
POET’S REGION Wales
SCHOOL / PERIOD 17th Century
Poetic Terms Rhymed Stanza, Concrete or Pattern Poetry
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