"wrapt In flesh": An Encounter with Christian Poetics
George Herbert's poem "Coloss. 3.3" provides an opportunity to evaluate the relations between poetic form and thematic content. The poem's graphic duality recapitulates the dualism of the kind of spiritual experience Herbert's poem describes, in which neither the fleshly nor...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2022
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Christianity & literature
Year: 2022, Volume: 71, Issue: 4, Pages: 495-501 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history |
| Further subjects: | B
poetic form
B Poetics B George Herbert B Christianity B New Formalism |
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| Summary: | George Herbert's poem "Coloss. 3.3" provides an opportunity to evaluate the relations between poetic form and thematic content. The poem's graphic duality recapitulates the dualism of the kind of spiritual experience Herbert's poem describes, in which neither the fleshly nor the spiritual is suppressed, but each is rather mutually dependent on the other for the full expression of its meaningfulness. This essay argues that a Christian Poetics must attend to the formal valences of a text as such, proposing that form is one apparatus by which a poem expresses theological principles. |
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| ISSN: | 2056-5666 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Christianity & literature
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/chy.2022.0050 |