Love Known: Theology and Experience in George Herbert's Poetry

by Richard Strier

Book Overview

This book changes the way we read one of the greatest masters of the lyric poem in English. Unlike much recent scholarship on George Herbert, Love Known demonstrates the inseparability of Herbert's theology and poetry. Richard Strier argues persuasively for a strongly Protestant Herbert who shared Luther's sense of the primacy of the doctrine of justification by faith. Cutting across traditional lines, the book is the first sustained study...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226777170
• ISBN13: 9780226777177
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"