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Article: Theory and Theology in George Herbert's Poetry: "Divinitie, and Poesie, Met".(Review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
- Article date:
- December 22, 1999
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Elizabeth Clarke. Theory and Theology in George Herbert's Poetry: "Divinitie, and Poesie, Met."
(Oxford Theological Monographs.) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. 299 pp. $75. ISBN: 0-19-826398-8.
Modern critics of Herbert have been particularly concerned to explore how Herbert reconciled his religious faith with his poetic ambitions. His faith, as Richard Strier has persuasively argued, accepted the inability of man to save himself through works, and yet Herbert produced a body of poetry demonstrating metric virtuosity, sophisticated imagery, and rhetorical skill. Elizabeth Clarke argues that this apparent conflict must be viewed in the context of ...