{"title":"Soliciting Interpretation: Literary Theory and Seventeenth-Century English Poetry (review)","authors":"S. Stewart","doi":"10.1353/ghj.1991.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ghj.1991.0000","url":null,"abstract":"In the Introduction to Soliciting Interpretation, Elizabeth D. Harvey and Katharine Eisaman Maus justify the subtitle of the book by ascribing theoretical affinities to the critics included, thus providing a rationale for their assembly of a dozen essays, which are, with the exception of Maureen Quilligan's essay on the poems from Mary Wroth's Urania (1621), on \"major authors\" (Shakespeare, Jonson, Donne, Herbert, and Milton). What, then, is the principle of inclusion in an anthology which purports to react against the \"high formalism\" of predecessors (T.S. Eliot, for instance), to think of \"the relationship between literature and history in a new way\" (p. x), and to challenge the \"New Critical canon\" (p. xiv) — that historical consequence of settled opinion on \"intrinsic excellences\" (p. xiv). As for the book's organization, the editors concede that, although they have grouped the essays which \"might fruitfully be considered together,\" other arrangements — or even a random mix of the twelve parts — might serve as well. So one section is \"political,\" even though the assumption seems to be that all criticism— even criticism which purports to escape the \"real world\" of economic and political strife by resorting to an aesthetics of \"art for art's sake\" — is of necessity political. The editors praise the \"new historicists\" for having overcome the limits of criticism unmindful of \"structures of political authority,\" past and present, implying that they have accomplished this critical wonder by a mere shift in reading interest:","PeriodicalId":143254,"journal":{"name":"George Herbert Journal","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123482006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Robert Herrick: A Minority Report","authors":"J. Post","doi":"10.1353/GHJ.1990.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/GHJ.1990.0012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":143254,"journal":{"name":"George Herbert Journal","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121983156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Psalmic and Classical Contexts of Herbert's \"Constancie\" and Vaughan's \"Righteousness\"","authors":"Noel J. Kinnamon","doi":"10.1353/GHJ.1984.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/GHJ.1984.0006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":143254,"journal":{"name":"George Herbert Journal","volume":"2017 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122137410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Typology, Allegory, and Protestant Poetics","authors":"T. P. Roche","doi":"10.1353/GHJ.1990.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/GHJ.1990.0018","url":null,"abstract":"Poetics and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric, since its publication in 1979, has established the term \"Protestant poetics\" as an accepted term of literary inquiry and has invested that term with an unquestioned reality that should be examined within the larger context of late medieval and Renaissance poetry, not exclusively lyric. The critical acceptance of this term ignores many problems that should deeply concern us as an academic community. One such problem is that in English literary studies we tend to set up sub-groups; we are \"definers,\" in the Lati nate sense of \"setting limits.\" Thus, we in Departments of English separate the Renaissance in England from the Renaissance on the Continent; separated by that narrowchannel, we further divide that English Renaissance into Sixteenth Century vs. Seventeenth Century, Elizabethan vs. Jacobean, and within those temporal and monarchical schemes, we further divide into dramatic vs. non-dramatic, epic vs. lyric, etc. The problem is further compounded by a universal law that insists on a virtually total separation between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. These divisions are helpful for the clarity of our departmental curricula, but they are not helpful for a full picture of a culture at any period. Lewalski had every disciplinary right to choose the seventeenth-century religious lyric as the subject of her book, but in that choice her imposition of the term \"Protestant poetics\" equally forces her to disregard the work of Richard Crashaw, an English Roman Catholic poet of the period, whose similarities to the poets she chose makes his omission seriously call into question the validity of her claims for a \"Protestant poetics,\" as Louis Martz noted in his review when","PeriodicalId":143254,"journal":{"name":"George Herbert Journal","volume":"190 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125679546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Biblical Narratives and Herbert's Dialogue Poems","authors":"J. Olson","doi":"10.1353/GHJ.1988.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/GHJ.1988.0007","url":null,"abstract":"Conversation between God and his servants seems to have been an important part of George Herbert's view of the religious life, and much of his poetry reflects this fundamental belief. Many poems in his work The Temple arise from this commitment to dialogue.1 After noting this tendency, Helen Vendler suggests that Herbert's love of social contact and interaction with God influenced all of his poetry:","PeriodicalId":143254,"journal":{"name":"George Herbert Journal","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124620666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Fine Tuning: Studies of the Religious Poetry of Herbert and Milton (review)","authors":"Mary Ann Radzinowicz","doi":"10.1353/ghj.1990.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ghj.1990.0013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":143254,"journal":{"name":"George Herbert Journal","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133853650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"George Herbert and the Epigrammatic Tradition","authors":"Robert J. Wickenheiser","doi":"10.1353/GHJ.1977.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/GHJ.1977.0003","url":null,"abstract":"In his dedication to the Earl of Pembroke, Ben Jonson refers to his \"Epigrammes\" as \"the ripest of my studies.\" The reference ¡s a startling, if not also perplexing one since epigrams hardly seem to us worthy of being considered the fruit of serious labor. Just as startling and perplexing is Jonson's collection of epigrams itself, for in it appear poems many modern readers tend to view as extremely fine instances of lyric expression, not really epigrams at all. The difficulty, then, is twofold: why does Jonson include what appear to us to be remarkably graceful lyric poems in a collection of poems he calls Epigrammes and why does he refer to this collection as the ripest of my studies. Suggestions for answers to these and other questions concerning lyric poetry of the early seventeenth century may be found, surprisingly enough, in the poetry of George Herbert, a poet known more for his lyric than for his epigrammatic achievements. Yet in addition to the English lyrics we admire so much in The Temple, he wrote a substantial number of Latin poems (126 ¡n all), and most of these poems, wth the exception of the collection honoring his mother, are epigrams or epigrammatic in nature. Many are only slight accomplishments in themselves, but taken as a whole they tell us a great deal about Herbert's development as a poet as well as about the kind of artistic success he achieved in his English verse. On a larger scale, they suggest an affinity between epigrammatic and lyric poetry in the seventeenth century which most of us have tended to ignore in responding appreciatively to this poetry. That Jonson wrote epigrams and considered these poems to be the ripest of his studies is reason enough to pause and consider the epigrammatic tradition. Throughout Epigrammes, as the reader is well aware, Jonson ranges in adapting epigrammatic form to suit his own poetic purposes, from being satiric in one poem, to being overtly witty, pointed, or maximatic in another, and even at times to affecting an emotional quality that strikes us as being primarily lyric in nature.","PeriodicalId":143254,"journal":{"name":"George Herbert Journal","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134258340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Herbert's Sonnets","authors":"J. Ottenhoff","doi":"10.1353/GHJ.1979.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/GHJ.1979.0003","url":null,"abstract":"The multifaceted architecture of George Herbert's The Temple is built in part upon fascinating and functional experiments with rhymepatterns and stanza forms. Rarely using the same verse form more than once in 77»· Temple, Herbert, like Donne, punctuates his verse with a proliferation of varying line lengths and rhyme patterns. ' Thus, the fifteen sonnets scattered through Th* Templo would represent, on the surface, a certain conservatism, a reversion to a well-worn and highly conventionalized form. But Herbert's sonnets show great vitality and wide variety; Herbert the sonneteer is hardly conventional, and his sonnets show a balanced exploitation of the freedoms of a strict verse form just as they admirably express the freedom he found in religious devotion.","PeriodicalId":143254,"journal":{"name":"George Herbert Journal","volume":"356 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132863429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Two Herbert Allusions","authors":"J. Shawcross","doi":"10.1353/GHJ.1986.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/GHJ.1986.0007","url":null,"abstract":"The following two texts may be added to the ever-growing collection of allusions to George Herbert that help document his popularity and influence. He is included in a list of various English poets in Olai Borrichii Dissertationes Academicae de Poetis, Publicis Disputationibus, in Regio Hafniensi Lycéo, assertae, Ab Anno 1676. ad Annum 1681. Francofurti: Daniele Paulli, Excudit Joanni. Georgius Drullmann, 1683. In \"Dissertatio V. De Poetis Latinis\" there is a direct reference to \"The Church Militant\" (II. 49-52):","PeriodicalId":143254,"journal":{"name":"George Herbert Journal","volume":"370 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133395722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}