Materiality and Devotion in the Poetry of George Herbert
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 11 January 2024
- ISBN 9780198874409
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages352 pages
- Size 240x160x20 mm
- Weight 662 g
- Language English 570
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Short description:
This book uses textual and material evidence -- in poetry, prayers, physiologies, sermons, church buildings and monuments, manuscript diaries and notebooks -- to explore how material things held spiritual meaning in George Herbert's poetry, and to reflect on scholarly approaches to matter and form in devotional poetry.
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George Herbert, his contemporaries, and readers inhabited a world of material things that were spiritually animated but deeply troubling. Habitual providential and typological interpretation imbued matter with meaning, and connected it with the rest of Creation; using material things was an act of interpretation, devotion an act of habitual reading. Materialist philosophies rejected distinctions between body and soul; injunctions to continuous prayer made every place and every bodily motion a potential house of and vehicle for prayer. At the same time Protestant doctrine and Church of England policy, expressed in sermons, visitation articles and works of theology as well as devotional manuals, prayer books and even physiologies and biographies, policed the ways and conditions in which material things, bodies, and spaces might be properly used in devotion.
Herbert's Temple is built, read, and used in this world of continual textual and material 'reading'. By a close reading of The Temple, this book explores how Herbert and his readers understood, experienced, and used material objects in devotion. The Temple is an edifice built of paper and ink, of Biblical allusion, and of analogy to both physical churches and spiritual communities of believers: a material and spiritual, literal, and figurative construction. In his verse, Herbert plays with the boundaries between material and spiritual presence, and between literal and figurative signification; in its devotional poetics material and spiritual meanings inform one another and its readers' devotional lives. Materiality and Devotion in the Poetry of George Herbert focuses in turn on three of the most significant kinds of material things seventeenth-century English believers encountered in devotion: their bodies, church buildings, and books.
This book displays an impressive range of interest and engagement, and considerable theoretical and methodological ambition alongside its historical expertise: for most of the argument this comes off splendidly, and offers a genuinely new perspective on Herbert, his works and his social and devotional contexts...Materiality and Devotion in the Poetry of George Herbert is a fine work, learned and agile, and it deserves a wide readership.
Table of Contents:
Part I: The Body at Prayer
'Lost in flesh': The body, prayer, and poetry in The Temple
Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations: Praying voices in The Temple
'My heart hath store, write there': Hearts and poetry in The Temple
'Down with thy knees, up with thy voice': Bodily prayer in The Temple
Part II: The Church Building
'A braver Palace then before': The Temple and the church building
'All show'd the builders, crav'd the seers care': Building sacred space in The Temple
'Betwixt this world and that of grace': Living on land in The Temple and The Country Parson
'Dissolution sure doth best discern': Commemoration in the church and The Temple
Coda: 'The hand you stretch/ Is mine to write': Devotion and the material text
Materiality and Devotion in the Poetry of George Herbert
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