The Perspective of Faith in the Love Poetry of Donne and Herbert
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article37062
- Author
- Hulse, Robert E. (Robert Edgar)
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Dialogue
- Date
- 1963 Summer
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Dialogue
- Date
- 1963 Summer
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 3
- Page
- 25-33
- Notes
- "'Since thou dost love, yet strike ...' In these few words is made explicit the particular perspective from which the poet [George Herbert] speaks -- the perspective of Faith. God loves; and from this elemental fact of Christian experience is derived the whole canon of Herbert's devotional poetry". "Herbert knew God's love, and was assured of its eternal constancy, through God's act of love in Christ; his own love he mistrusted, and begged to have increased. Inconstancy, for Donne, was the dreaded possibility that threatened the reality of God's love; but that threat had meaning only in the reality of the poet's doubt".
- Subjects
- Herbert, George, 1593-1633
- Donne, John, 1571-1631
- Christian poetry - Church of England
- Love - Religious aspects - Christianity
- Location
- General Synod Archives