A01=Arnold Stein
Author_Arnold Stein
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Christian rhetoric
closed form
colloquial phrasing
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expressive elements
expressive form
hidden meaning
metaphysical poets
metrical phrasing
middle style
overlapping forms
plain style
poetic form
rhythmical phrasing
seventeenth century
true poet
Product details
- ISBN 9781421433820
- Weight: 386g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 26 Jan 2020
- Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Originally published in 1968. The main purpose of this book is to demonstrate that George Herbert is one of the great masters of lyric poetry. Stein discusses Herbert's diction, imagery, syntax, and rhythm in light of his organization of the imaginative materials of time and self-consciousness and in light of his development of a rhetoric through which he could master the intimacies of personal failure and (what is far more difficult) express in language convincingly sincere states of positive religious achievement.
Arnold Stein was a professor of English at the University of Washington. He is the author of the volume of poetry Perilous Balance, which was published in 1945.
