Jeremy Taylor: Selected Works

by Jeremy Taylor

Book Overview

The Classics series, which has inspired many less-successful imitations over the years, has fulfilled its promise and given us an invaluable resource of the soul. The Catholic Historical Review Jeremy Taylor: Selected Works edited with an introduction by Thomas K. Carroll preface by John Booty Learn to despise the world; or, which is a better compendium in the duty, learn but truly to understand it; for it is a cousenage all the way; the head of its...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809131757
• ISBN13: 9780809131754
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Paulist Press
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

An astonishing prose stylist

Jeremy Taylor deserves a wider audience than those who are interested only in Christian classics.He is also a prose stylist of the first water. Read him, and you will see where DeQuincey got his chops. As he warms to the solemn themes about which he writes, his sentences are like great rivers of poetic and exalted language. His experience as a preacher also makes him a great master of the -sound- of words.